Re: RE to Peyton-Jones

1999-11-29 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 03:06:07PM +0100, Marko Schuetz wrote: For those who do not like to read legalese this is a standard BSD license. No it is not. The standard BSD license includes an evil advertising clause. This one is thus better. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] %

Re: RE to Peyton-Jones

1999-11-29 Thread Lennart Augustsson
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 03:06:07PM +0100, Marko Schuetz wrote: For those who do not like to read legalese this is a standard BSD license. No it is not. The standard BSD license includes an evil advertising clause. This one is thus better. There are

Re: RE to Peyton-Jones

1999-11-29 Thread Marko Schuetz
"Antti-Juhani" == Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Antti-Juhani On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 03:06:07PM +0100, Marko Schuetz wrote: This was part of the quoted LICENSE file: --- begin quote --- For those who do not like to read legalese this is a standard BSD license. --- end

Re: RE to Peyton-Jones

1999-11-29 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 06:05:12PM +0100, Lennart Augustsson wrote: There are variants of the BSD license, some with an advertising clause, some without. E.g., UCB, the originators of the BSD license, have removed their need for an advertising clause. I know. The point was that the original

Re: RE to Peyton-Jones

1999-11-27 Thread Manuel M. T. Chakravarty
Then, don t you think that, if we contact software companies, we could find some one who would buy the idea? Of course, I would not be able to sell the idea, but there are people in the Haskell community with a better chance to get commercial and industrial support for Haskell. As far as I

RE to Peyton-Jones

1999-11-25 Thread Eduardo Costa
| I mean, a group who could produce a | competitive compiler, useful not only to people who are | interested in testing | the language, but also in using it to produce commercial and | industrial tools. I think that would be absolutely splendid and I would do whatever I could to support such a

Re: RE to Peyton-Jones

1999-11-25 Thread S. Alexander Jacobson
It is not obvious that Haskell provides an order of magnitude improvement in any of these areas. Where I think Haskell (or Haskell compiler writers), could really be useful is in providing better XML transformation languages and implementations. XML Schemas are emerging as the defacto type