Section: Bilateral Contracts and Grants with Industry

Bilateral Contracts with Industry

The Caml Consortium

Participant : Damien Doligez.

The Caml Consortium, is a formal structure where industrial and academic users of OCaml can support the development of the language and associated tools, express their specific needs, and contribute to the long-term stability of OCaml. Membership fees are used to fund specific developments targeted towards industrial users. Members of the Consortium automatically benefit from very liberal licensing conditions on the OCaml system, allowing for instance the OCaml compiler to be embedded within proprietary applications.

Damien Doligez chairs the Caml Consortium.

The Consortium currently has 9 member companies:

• Aesthetic Integration

• Citrix

• Docker

• Esterel Technologies

• Facebook

• Jane Street

• LexiFi

• Microsoft

• SimCorp

The Caml Consortium is being gradually phased out. In the future, we would like to replace it entirely with the OCaml Software Foundation, discussed below.