On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 07:48:30AM -0700, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> Who owns the copyright?
Technically, everybody who has contributed nontrivial amounts of text (not
ideas, but text).
> but given very free-wheeling permission to reproduce the report.
I have one request. Language definitions are usually good candidates for
rewriting them into user's guides and other such texts. Therefore, I'd like
to see the Haskell language reports with a permission notice like this one:
Permission is granted by the authors to copy and
distribute this Report for any purpose, provided only that it is
reproduced in its entireity, including this Notice. Modified
copies of this Report may be copied and distributed for any purpose,
provided that the copies are marked as such and they do not
claim to be a definition of the language Haskell.
This ensures the integrity of the definition, while allowing manual writers
to reuse the text. I know that the GNU project has lamented the fact that
the specification of the C language is not freely modifiable; for that
reason we still lack a decent free manual for the C language.
> I hope that you find that acceptable.
It is, but I'd like you to consider my request.
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