[Aldor-l] Aldor is or is not free?

Jacques Carette carette at mcmaster.ca
Thu Dec 20 09:02:03 EST 2007


Timo Jyrinki wrote:
> As long as Aldor is not made truly free/open source, it cannot be included 
> in for example Linux distributions like Debian, Fedora, openSUSE and 
> Ubuntu. It also cannot be made part of Axiom, which is already free 
> software.
>
>   
Note that Ocaml is distributed with some of those Linux distributions, 
and it comes under a license with some restrictions (mainly a variant of 
the Q license).  So this issue is not so clear.

http://caml.inria.fr/ocaml/license.en.html

You may also wish to (re)read
http://www.aldor.org/pipermail/aldor-l/2007-September/000715.html

Jacques



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