[Demexp-dev] Re: CDuce and its QPL v1.0 license

[Alain Frisch]

Hi David and demexp developers,

> This license is considered as non-free software by the Debian project
> (http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?DFSGLicences). This is an issue for us
> as demexp is free software (under GNU GPL license) and we do not want to
> rely on non-free software to build it.

The page you mention says that the status of the QPL for Debian folks is
still unsettled, not that it has been flagged non-free.

As for as I understand, you will have the same licensing problem for 
OCaml. How do you address it ?

I have no strong political position concerning the CDuce licence. 
Especially, I feel that the runtime support library could have another
license (the problem is that it shares mostly all the source code with 
the compiler). Anyway, the issue needs to be discussed with other 
leaders of the CDuce project, so I cannot give an immediate answer. 
Still, I'll be interested to know your position concerning OCaml license.


Thanks for your interests in CDuce !

 Alain