Which code is being discussed here, specifically? The Cabal file for 'base' specifies a BSD3 license.
Simon | -----Original Message----- | From: cvs-ghc-boun...@haskell.org [mailto:cvs-ghc-boun...@haskell.org] | On Behalf Of Ian Lynagh | Sent: 06 January 2013 23:21 | To: Pavel Zelinsky | Cc: Simon Marlow; cvs-ghc@haskell.org | Subject: Re: Question about extensible-exceptions (to official | extensible-exceptions maintainer - GHC HQ) | | | [full mail quoted as it doesn't look like the original made it to the | list] | | Hi Pavel, | | On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 05:08:15PM -0700, Pavel Zelinsky wrote: | > | > Dear Ian Lynagh and Simon Marlow, | > | > I working with our attorneys an clarifying the Extensible-Exceptions | > license and I have a question. | > | > The license clearly states that code derived from Haskell 98 Report is | > distributed under the Report license. At the same time, the Report | > license and report itself does not specify code license, but rather | > entire report license and modified report. | > | > So what we are trying to understand: | > 1) What specifically code was derived from the Report if any? | | I'm not a lawyer, so can't offer legal advice (and certainly I'm not | qualified to say whether the extensible exceptions code would be | considered to be derived from the more primitive exceptions API in the | Haskell 98 report). | | But I wonder why it matters whether the extensible-exceptions code is | under that licence, when anything using it presumably also uses base or | haskell98, which both have the same licence? Unless perhaps you're | porting it to a different language or something? | | > 2) If the derived code was compiled with the following language in the | > license: "modified version is clearly presented as such, and that it | > does not claim to be a definition of the Haskell 98 Language"? | > Same questions about the "Haskell Foreign..." license. | | I didn't follow that. Did you mean "complies with" rather than "was | compiled with"? If so, I don't think that anyone would say that | extensible-exceptions claims to be a definition of the Haskell 98 | Language (but again, I'm not a lawyer etc). | | > I'm attaching below excerpts from your license for your convenience. | > | > Also I'm copying you (see below) on the similar communication with | > Milan Straka on Haskell_Containers license. Essentially Milan | > responded that there is no part of source code of containers that is | > derived from the Report or from Haskell Foreign Function Interface. | > Also he changed the license, so it does not mention neither Haskell | > Report nor Haskell FFI. I hope it is the same case with | > Extensible-Exceptions, so confusion can be resolved. | > | > Thank you! | > | > Pavel Zelinsky | > | > Pavel Zelinsky | > Senior Manager and Group Leader, DemandTec Softlines Science IBM | > Enterprise Marketing Management | > | > | > | > Phone: 1-303-800-4562 | IBM | > E-mail: pzeli...@us.ibm.com | > 1 Franklin | Parkway | > San Mateo, CA | 94403 | > United | > States | > | > | > | > Extensible-Exceptions license: | > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------- | > * Code from the Haskell 98 Report which is (c) Simon Peyton Jones | > and freely redistributable (but see the full license for | > restrictions). | > | > * Code from the Haskell Foreign Function Interface specification, | > which is (c) Manuel M. T. Chakravarty and freely redistributable | > (but see the full license for restrictions). | > | > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | > ------- | > | > Code from the Haskell 98 Report which is (c) Simon Peyton Jones | > and freely redistributable (but see the full license for | > restrictions). | > | > * Code from the Haskell Foreign Function Interface specification, | > which is (c) Manuel M. T. Chakravarty and freely redistributable | > (but see the full license for restrictions).Code derived from the | > document "Report on the Programming Language Haskell 98", is | > distributed under the following license: | > | > Copyright (c) 2002 Simon Peyton Jones | > | > The authors intend this Report to belong to the entire Haskell | > community, and so we grant permission to copy and distribute it for | > any purpose, provided that it is reproduced in its entirety, | > including this Notice. Modified versions of this Report may also be | > copied and distributed for any purpose, provided that the modified | > version is clearly presented as such, and that it does not claim to | > be a definition of the Haskell 98 Language. | > | > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | > ------- | > | > Code derived from the document "The Haskell 98 Foreign Function | > Interface, An Addendum to the Haskell 98 Report" is distributed under | > the following license: | > | > Copyright (c) 2002 Manuel M. T. Chakravarty | > | > The authors intend this Report to belong to the entire Haskell | > community, and so we grant permission to copy and distribute it for | > any purpose, provided that it is reproduced in its entirety, | > including this Notice. Modified versions of this Report may also be | > copied and distributed for any purpose, provided that the modified | > version is clearly presented as such, and that it does not claim to | > be a definition of the Haskell 98 Foreign Function Interface. | > | > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | > ------- | > | > Similar communication with Milan Straka: | > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | > ------- | > | > | > | > From: Milan Straka <f...@ucw.cz> | > To: Pavel Zelinsky/Boulder/IBM@IBMUS, | > Date: 12/16/2012 01:44 PM | > Subject: Re: Question about Haskell_Containers license | > | > | > | > Dear Pavel Zelinsky, | > | > > I working with our attorneys an clarifying the Haskell_Containers | > > license and I have a question. | > > | > > The license clearly states that code derived from Haskell 98 Report | > > is distributed under the Report license. At the same time, the | > > Report | > license | > > and report itself does not specify code license, but rather entire | > > report license and modified report. | > > | > > So what we are trying to understand: | > > 1) What specifically code was derived from the Report? | > > 2) If the derived code was compiled with the following language in | > > the | > > license: "modified version is clearly presented as such, and that it | > > does not claim to be a definition of the Haskell 98 Language"? | > > Same questions about the "Haskell Foreign..." license. | > | > The maintainers of the containers are sure that there is no part of | > source code of containers that is derived from the Report. They are | > also sure that there is no part of source code of containers that is | > derived from Haskell Foreign Function Interface. | > | > In order to clarify and simplify the license conditions, we changed | > the LICENSE in the master repository of containers (available at | > https://github.com/haskell/containers). It now contains only the GHC | > license (standard BSD-3 license) and does not mention neither Haskell | > Report nor Haskell FFI. | > | > This hopefully answers your questions. Please do not hesitate to | > contact us if you have further questions. | > | > Best regards, | > Milan Straka | > | > ----------------------------------------------------- | | | Thanks | Ian | | | _______________________________________________ | Cvs-ghc mailing list | Cvs-ghc@haskell.org | http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-ghc _______________________________________________ Cvs-ghc mailing list Cvs-ghc@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-ghc
