GHC licence (was Could Haskell be taken over by Microsoft?)

[Ross Paterson]

Simon L Peyton Jones wrote:
> So far as GHC is concerned, I wrote on this list a month ago:
> "More specifically, I plan to continue beavering away on GHC.
> GHC is public domain software, and Microsoft are happy for it to 
> remain so, source code and all.  If anything, I'll have quite a bit
> more time to work on it than before."

Do you mean "public domain" literally, i.e. are you renouncing all
copyright?  (The source code contains copyright notices, but no
licence, as far as I can see.)

Ross Paterson