Mac installer packages usually present a license to the user to accept
during the installation process. Consequently, I added what I think
is a correct licensing document to the tree at
http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc/distrib/MacOS/installer-docs/
license.html
However, this is of course a platform independent issue and so I think
it might be useful to discuss the document and whether we want
propagate it further towards the root of the tree. Here the main
points:
* The main license says that GHC is
Copyright [2002..2008], The University Court of the University of
Glasgow and others.
The "and others" is a weak attempt at acknowledging non-Uni of
Glasgow authors (cf http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/740).
* GMP is in most/many GHC distributions. Hence, we need to display
the LGPL.
* My understanding is that any distribution that uses readline and/or
System.Console.Readline at all must display the GPL. It's the GPL -
not the LGPL - so whether readline is linked dynamically or statically
makes no difference.
Did I get anything wrong?
Manuel
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