| Getting the licensing right is an important goal, but if anyone thinks
| that a more liberal license will result in prolific Haskell library
| development, forget it. We need worker bees...
Agreed. In fact the only reason I mentioned licensing at all in
my original posting was to make the comparison to Linux. In fact,
although I haven't kept records, my sense as far as Hugs is concerned
is that the number of external patches and bug fixes that we receive
has actually gone *down* since we moved to the new license ...
The essence of all this is in trying to figure out where we can find our
worker bees, how do we move from cathedral to bazaar, etc. Is that
possible? What can we do to stimulate and encourage it? I'm glad to
see that this thread has already generated some interesting observations
and suggestions. And, as a practical step, writing libraries seems like
an excellent way to get involved --- especially if they're useable with
multiple implementations.
All the best,
Mark
