On 2003-05-19T10:20:01-0400, Mark Carroll wrote:
I should mention to contributors to the Haskell community that the precise licensing of their code can matter a lot.
It matters which particular "opensource" licence you pick, so review them and choose carefully, based on your beliefs and ideals.
Thanks for the reminder! The following summary of the goals underlying various licenses might also help: http://www.dina.dk/~abraham/rants/license.html
It would be really great if it were somehow easy for Haskell developers to be easily able to check the licensing status of various bits of code - tools, libraries, etc. - that their software uses, or that they are thinking of having it use. It's not too hard to look into now, but after the Haskell community and hierarchical libraries have grown much more I don't know if one might wish that something had been built in early on that somehow eases semi-automated checking.
I agree. It seems that even just making sure that every file contains a copyright statement would help. -- Edit this signature at http://www.digitas.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/ken/sig http://weblog.holopedia.org/