Tom Tobin wrote: > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Robert Greayer <robgrea...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Tom Tobin <korp...@korpios.com> wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Ben Franksen <ben.frank...@online.de> >>> wrote: >>> > Ketil Malde wrote: >>> >> Your contributions could still be licensed under a different license >>> >> (e.g. BSD), as long as the licensing doesn't prevent somebody else to >>> >> pick it up and relicense it under GPL. >>> >> >>> >> At least, that's how I understand things. >>> > >>> > Right. So hakyll is absolutely fine with a BSD3 license, AFAICS. >>> >>> Seriously, no, this is *totally* wrong reading of the GPL, probably >>> fostered by a misunderstanding of the term "GPL-compatible license". >>> GPL-compatible means the compatibly-licensed work can be incorporated >>> into the GPL'd work (the whole of which is GPL'd), *not the other way >>> around*. If you are forming a derivative work based on the GPL'd >>> work, and thus you have to release that derivative work under the GPL. >> >> The crux here is that the source code of hakyll, released on hackage, is >> not a derivative of Pandoc (it contains, as far as I understand it, no >> Pandoc source code). A compiled executable *is* a derivative of Pandoc, >> so anyone who *distributes* a compiled executable would need to make >> *all* the source available under the GPL (including the hakyll source). >> Since the hakyll package is released under BSD3, this would be allowed >> (AIUI, IANAL). > > IANAL either, but my understanding is that judges take a very dim view > of attempts like this to evade the requirements of a license. If a > piece of software is built on another piece of software, it doesn't > matter if you're looking at source code or a binary. > > I can write the SFLC and pose a hypothetical situation that captures > the gist of what we're talking about, and post the response here, if > anyone is interested.
Yes, very much. (and IANAL, too, of course). Cheers Ben _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
