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BruceM | 10 years ago

Since you collect... be sure to check out the open sourced Harlequin MLWorks: https://www.ravenbrook.com/project/mlworks/ and https://github.com/Ravenbrook/mlworks

There are some branches on the repo with more recent work to get it to compile on other platforms.

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cm3|10 years ago

Doesn't build yet but it's great this didn't get lost like other code. It's a shame licensing and ip management keeps some of our works under lock. Imagine books and scientific papers being kept in vaults. It's another good reason to start projects in the open without giving up ownership to a company or some organization. The FSF or INRIA could pull an Oracle and branch off into a closed code base, but that of course won't happen. Just illustrating the dangers of giving copyright ownership to a single entity like FSF or Google for that matter. Sorry for the rant, but INRIA's CLA rubs me the wrong way because they license OCaml as LGPL with the option to relicense under a liberal license exclusively to Caml Consortium members it seems: https://www.reddit.com/r/ocaml/comments/46fiox/ocaml_compile... They are in the right to do so and have valid reasons but it's not a great idea for a project with not that many external contributors.