Manuel, Bryan, Thorkil
I have not been following this licensing thread in detail, but I sense you have
reached some kind of consensus. Could you write it up on
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Licensing
so that we don't lose your conclusions?
Thanks.
Simon
| -----Original Message-----
| From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Manuel M T
Chakravarty
| Sent: 12 February 2008 05:56
| To: [email protected]
| Subject: License in the Mac installer
|
| 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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