GHC licence (was Could Haskell be taken over by Microsoft?)

1998-07-21 Thread Ross Paterson
Simon L Peyton Jones wrote: So far as GHC is concerned, I wrote on this list a month ago: "More specifically, I plan to continue beavering away on GHC. GHC is public domain software, and Microsoft are happy for it to remain so, source code and all. If anything, I'll have quite a bit more

Re: GHC licence (was Could Haskell be taken over by Microsoft?)

1998-07-21 Thread Simon L Peyton Jones
Simon L Peyton Jones wrote: So far as GHC is concerned, I wrote on this list a month ago: "More specifically, I plan to continue beavering away on GHC. GHC is public domain software, and Microsoft are happy for it to remain so, source code and all. If anything, I'll have quite a bit

Re: GHC licence (was Could Haskell be taken over by Microsoft?)

1998-07-21 Thread Marko Schuetz
"Simon" == Simon L Peyton Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Simon L Peyton Jones wrote: So far as GHC is concerned, I wrote on this list a month ago: "More specifically, I plan to continue beavering away on GHC. GHC is public domain software, and Microsoft are happy for it to remain so,

Re: GHC licence (was Could Haskell be taken over by Microsoft?)

1998-07-21 Thread Jorgen Frojk Kjaersgaard
Simon L Peyton Jones wrote: Simon L Peyton Jones wrote: Do you mean "public domain" literally, i.e. are you renouncing all copyright? (The source code contains copyright notices, but no licence, as far as I can see.) No I am not renouncing all copyright. By "public domain" I mean

Re: GHC licence (was Could Haskell be taken over by Microsoft?)

1998-07-21 Thread H. Conrad Cunningham
Jorgen Frojk Kjaersgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It might be a good idea to publish GHC under the GNU Public License or something similar. It grants everybody the right to use the software for any purpose, including making extensions or modifications of it - as long as the "derived work" is

Re: GHC licence (was Could Haskell be taken over by Microsoft?)

1998-07-21 Thread Jan Skibinski
It might be a good idea to publish GHC under the GNU Public License or something similar. It grants everybody the right to use the software for any purpose, including making extensions or modifications of it - as long as the "derived work" is published under GPL as well. This ensures that

Re: GHC licence (was Could Haskell be taken over by Microsoft?)

1998-07-21 Thread Charles Godin
On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Simon L Peyton Jones wrote: (...) But it's never been a problem so far, and I doubt it will in the future, so I'm reluctant to invest the time until pressed to do so. No need to apologize to a group of haskell fanatics for using lazy evaluation to solve this problem