Hello, Indeed an interesting question. Although I am no licensing expert, I guess that the intention of the GPL is that if you copy the Haskell readline code which is under the GPL and modify it, then the result will also be under the GPL. Independent development is a possibility, unless you can get hold of the copyright holder. Best regards Thorkil On Saturday 12 January 2008 01:19, Judah Jacobson wrote:
Hi all,
As mentioned before, I'm putting together an editline package which will provide a subset of the APIs from the readline package, but be BSD-compatible since it links against libedit.
The licensing for the readline package itself is a little strange -- it's licensed under the GPL (because it links with libreadline), but there's no copyright holder information; and Readline.hsc from that package lists "Copyright: (c) unknown".
I'd like to put the Haskell editline package under BSD3, but most of the code will be copied verbatim from the readline package. How should this be attributed/copyrighted?
Thanks, -Judah _______________________________________________ Libraries mailing list Libraries@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries