RE: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Utility functions

2005-01-06 Thread Simon Marlow
On 30 December 2004 05:25, Philippa Cowderoy wrote: On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, John Goerzen wrote: But like I've said, I am willing to negotiate with people that require code under a license that lets them use it without releasing the code. I have also stated that I will put any part of the code

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Utility functions

2005-01-06 Thread Ketil Malde
Simon Marlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There are already a couple of bits of (L)GPL under fptools: GMP and readline. GMP we'd like to replace because it is necessarily a part of every compiled Haskell program; readline isn't so important but it would be nice to have a BSD-licensed

RE: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Utility functions

2005-01-06 Thread Simon Marlow
On 06 January 2005 12:20, Ketil Malde wrote: Simon Marlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There are already a couple of bits of (L)GPL under fptools: GMP and readline. GMP we'd like to replace because it is necessarily a part of every compiled Haskell program; readline isn't so important but it

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Utility functions

2004-12-30 Thread John Meacham
On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 04:38:01AM +, Mark Carroll wrote: On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, John Goerzen wrote: (snip) I accept patches for things like this for MissingH. You can send me code or diffs as you prefer. I've been accepting code licensed under GPL, LGPL, or BSD, and will need a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Utility functions

2004-12-29 Thread Philippa Cowderoy
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, John Goerzen wrote: In which case, it will fall under the default (GPL) license of the library (and may later be given to fptools to be part of the standard library). I would've thought the GPL was incompatible with being part of a standard library intended for use in

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Utility functions

2004-12-29 Thread John Goerzen
On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 12:02:58AM +, Philippa Cowderoy wrote: On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, John Goerzen wrote: In which case, it will fall under the default (GPL) license of the library (and may later be given to fptools to be part of the standard library). I would've thought the GPL was

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Utility functions

2004-12-29 Thread Mark Carroll
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, John Goerzen wrote: (snip) I accept patches for things like this for MissingH. You can send me code or diffs as you prefer. I've been accepting code licensed under GPL, LGPL, or BSD, and will need a statement such as: (snip) Can you mix in BSD code with GPL, though,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Utility functions

2004-12-29 Thread John Goerzen
On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 05:24:38AM +, Philippa Cowderoy wrote: This is the bit I was worried about, the idea of GPLed library code in fptools disturbs me somewhat. I don't think anyone is suggesting doing that. I'm not, anyway. I don't think the fptools maintainers would accept it if I