I am about to update our library for BER (Basic Encoding Rules). I have read http://www.haskell.org/~simonmar/libraries/libraries.html.
I think it should be called Network.BER.
That's fine.
I don't have any strong views on licensing and it looks like BSD would cause the least problems.
The license is entirely up to you, but one practical thing to bear in mind is that we're going to keep licenses the same within a given package (i.e. libraries/base, libraries/network etc.) so if you envisage your code being absorbed into libraries/network at some point then this will be easier if you pick the same license (i.e. BSD).
I assume it should be classified as experimental.
This just affects how often you can change the interface. Best to stick with experimental until it's been out in the wild a while.
I am using CVS. Could someone tell me how I get the string
-- $Id: libraries.sgml,v 1.4 2001/07/05 13:52:49 simonmar Exp $
put into the recommended header (see below)?
Actually I've just removed all these from fptools/libraries on the grounds that they were confusing and didn't really serve the purpose they were intended to, so don't worry about the $Id$ string unless you have a good reason for wanting one. Cheers, Simon