Re: The non-freeness of OCAML (Was: Re: Comparison of various functional languages?)

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From: Steven G. Johnson
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 00:00

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mottl@miss.wu-wien.ac.at wrote:
> The question is, whether commercial enterprises may actually just
> cut'n'paste the code into their projects. I think this is what INRIA does
> not want to have. Otherwise the researchers would have to explain to
> their superiors, why they "work" for industry - without any payoff for
> their research (maybe the opposite if people keep using the commercial
> products).

So why not use the GPL, like gcc uses?  (I assume by "commercial" you mean
"proprietary."  Non-proprietary commercial use, similar to what Cygnus
does with gcc, would benefit you because you would get to see and use any
enhancements they make.)

Cordially,
Steven G. Johnson

PS. I am a happy user of OCaml (see http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~fftw).  Thanks!

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From: stevenj@alum.mit.edu (Steven G. Johnson)
Subject: Re: The non-freeness of OCAML (Was: Re: Comparison of various functional languages?)
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