Hello, I am writing a port to F# of some haskell standard libraries. I would like to publish them under an open source license and mention the origin of the initial code. www.haskell.org is under the simple permissive license. Does this license also cover the souce code available from that site? Is there any restriction about the license I might choose? Thak you Regards jcm
Hello jean-christophe, Monday, November 30, 2009, 11:43:00 AM, you wrote:
I am writing a port to F# of some haskell standard libraries.
www.haskell.org is under the simple permissive license. Does this license also cover the souce code available from that site?
the license cover only Wiki contents. std haskell libraries covered by BSD3 license, for example as a part of bsd3-covered GHC distribution -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com
www.haskell.org is under the simple permissive license. Does this license also cover the souce code available from that site?
the license cover only Wiki contents. std haskell libraries covered by BSD3 license, for example as a part of bsd3-covered GHC distribution
And in fact the official Haskell'98 libraries are covered by an even more permissive license: that of the Language Report. "The authors intend this Report to belong to the entire Haskell community, and so we grant permission to copy and distribute it for any purpose, provided that it is reproduced in its entirety, including this Notice. Modified versions of this Report may also be copied and distributed for any purpose, provided that the modified version is clearly presented as such, and that it does not claim to be a definition of the language Haskell 98." Regards, Malcolm
Hello Malcolm, Monday, November 30, 2009, 1:45:29 PM, you wrote:
And in fact the official Haskell'98 libraries are covered by an even more permissive license: that of the Language Report.
"The authors intend this Report to belong to the entire Haskell community, and so we grant permission to copy and distribute it for any purpose, provided that it is reproduced in its entirety, including this Notice"
i don't think that "reproducing in its entirety" is more permissive for his purpose :) -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com
i don't think that "reproducing in its entirety" is more permissive for his purpose :)
I think translating to F# counts as modification, so the other clause of the license applies; namely you can do anything you like with it, provided you do not claim it defines Haskell'98. Regards, Malcolm
On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 09:43 +0100, jean-christophe mincke wrote:
Hello,
I am writing a port to F# of some haskell standard libraries.
I would like to publish them under an open source license and mention the origin of the initial code.
www.haskell.org is under the simple permissive license. Does this license also cover the souce code available from that site?
No, that only applies to the wiki content. The license of source code is given individually in each package, usually in a file called LICENSE or COPYING or similar.
Is there any restriction about the license I might choose?
Most packages are licensed under the 3-clause BSD license or the LGPL or GPL. In each case it will be clearly marked. Duncan
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Malcolm Wallace