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...@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 <gersh...@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...@gmail.com <mailto:nick.papadonis...@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 >> _______________________________________________ >> Haskell-community mailing list >> Haskell-community@haskell.org <mailto:Haskell-community@haskell.org> >> http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-community >> <http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-community> > > -- brandon s allbery kf8nh allber...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Haskell-community mailing list Haskell-community@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-community