Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Why Not Haskell? (sidenote on licensing)

Stefan Monnier writes: (snip)

Doesn't sound credible. You're free to write and sell a program whose source code is exactly the same as Emacs's (or PowerPoint for that matter) as long as you can show it was pure accident (snip)

It's kind of hard to be sure that you'll be able to show that, though, especially if the other code was available to you. -- Mark