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paurkedal / ppx_regexp

Matching Regular Expressions with OCaml Patterns
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0
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License #10

Closed paurkedal closed 2 years ago

paurkedal commented 2 years ago

Since the OCaml linking exception was written for LGPL-2, the current license "LGPL-3 with OCaml linking exception" is not clear. For other projects I have switched to "LGPL-3.0-or-later WITH LGPL-3.0-linking-exception".

@Drup Do you have an opinion about which license to use, and do you agree that we also change the license for ppx_tyre? I plan to make a release of ppx_regexp soon, since I updated it to use ppxlib. Should we include ppx_tyre even if it's only the license change? (But I can hold the release if you have other changes.)

Drup commented 2 years ago

I don't think "LGPL-3 with OCaml linking exception" is underdefined (iirc, the legwork has been done by ocamlpro at some point to define what it means), so I think this is rather pedantic and useless, but if you feel reassured doing that, I don't have any opposition, you can go forth. :p

paurkedal commented 2 years ago

Nice, I was not aware of that. Do you know if the published it somewhere? Searching, I found a reformulation at the bottom of https://gitlab.com/o-labs/solidity-parser-ocaml/-/blob/master/LICENSE, so that's probably the phrasing, unless they revised it.

paurkedal commented 2 years ago

I updated the license exception of the ppx_regexp subpackage and made a dual-exception for the common code.