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OCaml library for TOML
https://ocaml-toml.github.io/To.ml
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LGPL linking exception? #57

Closed emberian closed 1 year ago

emberian commented 6 years ago

Eg like this library http://calendar.forge.ocamlcore.org/ or camomile or murmur3

I was looking through all my opam deps and many of the libraries use LGPL "with Ocaml linking exception". Should this library?

sagotch commented 6 years ago

Can you explain what it would change?

emberian commented 6 years ago

my understanding is it tweaks the terms of the LGPL to enable this sort of scenarios: an open source software A is released that uses to.ml. someone modifies A, and distributes binaries without source (supposing A license allows this). without the linking exception the person distributing A must figure out how to distribute it so that it can be relinked with modified copies of to.ml. with the linking exception, they are free to do this without having to enable relinking.

sagotch commented 5 years ago

I will check this, but if it is true I am okay with that. I would agree to use a with MIT-like as well, but I just would like to understand what this linking exception actually is...

zapashcanon commented 1 year ago

Closing as I don't want to spend time contacting all the authors and asking them if they're OK with a license change. If someone is willing to do it, feel free to. :-)