On 30 December 2004 05:25, Philippa Cowderoy wrote:

On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, John Goerzen wrote:

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But like I've said, I am willing to negotiate with people that require code under a license that lets them use it without releasing the code. I have also stated that I will put any part of the code I've written under the fptools license if that code will be added to fptools. (I perceive that as a greater good than license pragmatism in this instance.)

This is the bit I was worried about, the idea of GPLed library code in fptools disturbs me somewhat.

There are already a couple of bits of (L)GPL under fptools: GMP and readline. GMP we'd like to replace because it is necessarily a part of every compiled Haskell program; readline isn't so important but it would be nice to have a BSD-licensed replacement. The policy for Haskell libraries in fptools is that licenses are assigned no finer than package granularity, so that a user of a package can have a reasonable chance of telling whether they are complying with the relevant licenses. Cheers, Simon