On May 24, 2020, at 11:30 AM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b@gmail.com> wrote:

As a historical note, the openness of the Haskell spec was a reaction
to the licensing of the research language Miranda and as such was
quite intentional.

On 5/24/20, Nicholas Papadonis <nick.papadonis.ml@gmail.com> wrote:

Thank you!  That puts the language in a better position in regards to being
open for anyone to use.

LICENSE:
"The authors and publisher intend this Report to belong to the entire
Haskell community, and grant permission to copy and distribute it for
any purpose, provided that it is reproduced in its entirety, including
this Notice." "For any purpose" would include implementation of the
language it specifies.

On May 24, 2020, at 11:19 AM, Gershom B <gershomb@gmail.com> wrote:

See the (very open) license of the Haskell Report
https://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/haskell2010/
<https://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/haskell2010/>

On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 11:16 AM Nicholas Papadonis
<nick.papadonis.ml@gmail.com <mailto:nick.papadonis.ml@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi Folks,

You may be aware of Oracle vs. Google in regards to the Java API being
copyrighted.  The case is still in progress.

When the Haskell language was created, including any books on it, the
authors became the copyright holder for the language API that one uses to
code with.  Is anyone aware of any license which grants people free use of
this API.  I saw various licenses for compilers, but was concerned that
was only for the code implementing the compiler/interpreter.  If so, what
is it?

There could be an interpretation that a derivative work of the compiler /
interpreter implementation is indeed the language itself.  Therefore if
the compiler / interpreter and it’s derivative is freely licensed, then
the language API is as well.

I ask because it’s my understanding C/C++ language API was licensed
through ISO, which grants a free license to anyone implementing or using
the language API.

Appreciate your guidance.

Thank you,
Nick
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