On 25 October 2011 21:37, Eric Y. Kow
So I'm combining Haskell software with some non-free/closed source work. I was wondering what sort of effort it would take to organise a blanket license for everything in the Haskell Platform, and whether it would be worthwhile to anybody.
Here's my use case:
- I am combining my Haskell [:-)] program with some non-free/closed source [:-(] software
- My user is concerned that a large number of having a large number of individual licenses even though textually identical modulo author, date, etc would mean a big hassle getting their lawyers and their user's lawyers to sign off on each and every license
Why do their lawyers all need to sign off individually for BSD licenses (which if memory serves all platform libraries have to be licensed under, or some variant thereof)? At most it just means they need to lump them all into one big text file somewhere saying which libraries they used... (then again, IANAL, and don't charge by the hour to consider these complex technical questions :p).
I feel a bit embarrassed asking this as it's already great and also very convenient that I can just grab this closed source stuff, but suppose we were to decide that putting together some sort of blanket license for the Haskell Platform would be a good idea. How would we go about organising such an effort?
Well, it would need copyright attribution/agreement of everyone that's ever committed code to any library/application to the Platform (which is why so many large projects want it) to re-license them AFAIK, which may be difficult. -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic Ivan.Miljenovic@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com