Re: [Haskell-cafe] short licensing question

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:02:46PM -0600, Tom Tobin wrote:

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 6:58 AM, Sebastian Fischer wrote:

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when writing a Haskell library that uses two other Haskell libraries -- one licensed under BSD3 and one under LGPL -- what are allowed possibilities for licensing the written package? PublicDomain? BSD3? LGPL?

There was a long thread on licensing recently:

http://www.mail-archive.com/haskell-cafe@haskell.org/msg68237.html

I'm still waiting to hear back from the SFLC regarding the questions we came up with, and I'll post them as soon as I get them. I think in your case you can license the library you're writing any way you'd like, but distributing a statically linked binary might leave you with additional obligations under the LGPL. (Things get wonderfully more confusing when one of the libraries is the GPL, but hopefully we'll have more insight regarding that soon.) I'm not a lawyer, though, and I suggest that you take any advice from non-lawyers as hints rather than definitive answers. If you want an answer from a lawyer, the SFLC can be useful:

http://www.softwarefreedom.org/

You can also ask the Freedom Task Force of the FSFE: http://fsfe.org/projects/ftf/ftf.en.html They may offer better legal advice for Europe. Regards, Matthias-Christian