Re: Copyright for readline/editline packages

On Jan 12, 2008 11:11 AM, Judah Jacobson wrote:

On 1/12/08, Isaac Dupree wrote:

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if the only copyright license granted for the Haskell-readline code is GPL (which sounds true), then it has to stay GPL. If BSD was also given as permission (it's always possible to give more permissions for the parts of something that you hold the copyright to), then, no worries, Haskell-editline can be BSD.

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Finding the author would be good if we could though, because she/he/they would most likely give us BSD permissions (just guessing :-)

~Isaac

Thanks all, that's pretty much what I expected. I'll try to track down the author and get BSD permissions from them.

An update: I determined that three people (Marcin Kowalczyk, Simon Marlow and Isaac Jones) were significant contributers to that file. All three have given their blessing towards licensing that code under BSD3. I hope to have a preliminary version of the editline package uploaded to hackage sometime later this week. Best, -Judah