Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] new dllist (yet again)

[Brian H. <bh...@sp...>]

On 27 Aug 2004, skaller wrote:

> If its GPL then it cannot be used in Extlib. 

It's LGPL + standard exception, like the rest of Extlib and the Ocaml
standard libraries.  I copied the copyright notice from extList, IIRC.

> This is true for almost all
> licences, even very liberal FFAU licences. The one thing
> an author does NOT want is for some code he *didn't* write
> and isn't responsible for to cause some problem, and have
> the user complain to him about it.

I was mainly thinking "you're doing the work- you should get the credit".

I actually considered simply replacing my name with his on the copyright 
line.  While I wouldn't mind, I decided it was a bad idea to encourage 
people to do things that other people might mind.

> 
> If you modify some open source software -- you should
> take the first line of responsibility for the whole
> of it. It is customary to also give the whole credit
> to the upstream author. Most people say something like
> 
> "All credit goes to Brian, and all the bugs are mine"
> 
> or some such semi-humorous line.

All hail the great and glorious Brian.  Never mind that programmer behind 
the curtain. :-)

Seriously- he's doing serious, material improvements to the code, and
deserves co-author credits.


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Brian