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 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 aware of any license which grants people free use of > this API. I saw various licenses for compilers, but was concerned that was > only for the code implementing the compiler/interpreter. If so, what is it? > > There could be an interpretation that a derivative work of the compiler / > interpreter implementation is indeed the language itself. Therefore if the > compiler / interpreter and it’s derivative is freely licensed, then the > language API is as well. > > I ask because it’s my understanding C/C++ language API was licensed > through ISO, which grants a free license to anyone implementing or using > the language API. > > Appreciate your guidance. > > Thank you, > Nick > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-community mailing list > Haskell-community@haskell.org > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-community >
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