[opam-devel] license update

Anil Madhavapeddy anil at recoil.org
Mon May 13 10:44:03 BST 2013


On 13 May 2013, at 10:37, Thomas Gazagnaire <thomas at ocamlpro.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've updated the license of OPAM from GPL to LGPL+linking exception.
> 
> https://github.com/OCamlPro/opam/issues/612
> 
> The goal is to have more third-party libraries using the OPAM API directly, instead of calling the command-line, the first one of these being the automated test system for the OCaml plateform (https://github.com/ocamllabs/ocamlot).

Thanks for this switch Thomas, it makes 3rd party development much easier.

David Sheets has been hacking away at bringing OCamlot live, and now has a command-line tool that can merge pull requests and try them locally.  He'll have more details after a little more work, but you can see the first message from the buildbot in this Core pull request:

https://github.com/OCamlPro/opam-repository/pull/693

-anil


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