Re: [Haskell-community] Haskell language API copyright status?

2020-05-24 Thread Nicholas Papadonis
Was Miranda a closed license? > On May 24, 2020, at 11:30 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote: > > 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

Re: [Haskell-community] Haskell language API copyright status?

2020-05-24 Thread Brandon Allbery
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 wrote: > Thank you! That puts the language in a better position in regards to being > open for anyone to use.

Re: [Haskell-community] Haskell language API copyright status?

2020-05-24 Thread Nicholas Papadonis
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

Re: [Haskell-community] Haskell language API copyright status?

2020-05-24 Thread Gershom B
See the (very open) license of the Haskell Report https://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/haskell2010/ On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 11:16 AM Nicholas Papadonis < nick.papadonis...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > You may be aware of Oracle vs. Google in regards to the Java API being > copyrighted. The

[Haskell-community] Haskell language API copyright status?

2020-05-24 Thread Nicholas Papadonis
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