markl: > I took a look at the licenses for the included projects. > > They are all, but one, BSD3-like, though there are several minor variants of > the actual license text. > > The exception is syb which is part BSD3, and two parts which are based on the > Haskell 98 report license.
Hmm. Interesting!! > The installer has the ability to show a license notice to the user and > ask them to agree to it. The notice presented by the GHC installer > concatenates the GHC BSD3-like license and the LGPL license for GMP > into one long page. > > I propose instead to show a much shorter page, something like: > > "The components in this package are governed by several open source > licenses: > > GHC system: BSD3 > GMP library: LGPL > Haskell Platform Libraries: BSD3 & Haskell Report 98 > > Details can be found on the web at the [Haskell Platform site]. > The components are each installed with their respective license files." > > The [Haskell Platform site] should be a link to a live web page that would > show all the details. > > Another option is to concatenate all licenses after the summary text above. > > A third option is to not have the installer show the licenses, nor ask > for a formal "I Agree" step, and instead, simply point out the > licenses in the README presented at install time, and in the installed > "Start" HTML doc. > > Thoughts? What do the other installers for Haskell Platform do? > Some of them bundle all the licenses. (Cabal will have support for this soon). -- Don _______________________________________________ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform
