Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform - BSD License?

2012-08-02 Thread Manuel M T Chakravarty
Thomas Schilling nomin...@googlemail.com: You may concatenate the licenses of all the packages you are using. GHC includes the LGPL libgmp. The license file for each package is mentioned in the .cabal file. If you need a version of GHC free of the LGPL, you can build GHC from source

[Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform - BSD License?

2012-07-31 Thread Sai Hemanth K
Hi, I am trying to use haskell for building a tool (in a commercial setting). I am trying to figure out what all licenses are involved here. Is there a single license for the entire haskell platform (and the runtime) or is it that I need to look at the individual licenses of all the libraries

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform - BSD License?

2012-07-31 Thread Magnus Therning
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Sai Hemanth K saihema...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am trying to use haskell for building a tool (in a commercial setting). I am trying to figure out what all licenses are involved here. Is there a single license for the entire haskell platform (and the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform - BSD License?

2012-07-31 Thread Sai Hemanth K
Thanks Magnus. I guess it means that the license of individual packages is what that matters. The platform on the whole does not have any single license. In other words, I cannot just say that am using haskell platform but that I have to say, I am using x,y and z libraries which in turn are using

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform - BSD License?

2012-07-31 Thread Carter Schonwald
it looks like ghc itself is under a BSD3 style license, if thats any help. So per se, I think you can assume youre dealing with a BSD3 through and through system. see here for the ghc info http://www.haskell.org/ghc/license (this is something i've been sorting out for my own projects too, and to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform - BSD License?

2012-07-31 Thread Thomas Schilling
You may concatenate the licenses of all the packages you are using. GHC includes the LGPL libgmp. The license file for each package is mentioned in the .cabal file. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org