Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: hakyll-0.1

2009-12-08 Thread Gregory Crosswhite
Tom Tobin wrote: The 3 clause BSD license is officially a GPL compatible license. See: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses It is within the terms of the GPL to link GPL code to a bunch of BSD3 code as long as you abide by both the GPL and the BSD3

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: hakyll-0.1

2009-12-08 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Gregory Crosswhite wrote: I *really* wish Pandoc would switch to a non-copyleft license. The LGPL is still a copyleft license. Do you still have a problem with that? If Pandoc is LGPL, I wasn't suggesting that pandoc was LGPL, I was probing the other posters attitudes to copyleft

RE: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: hakyll-0.1

2009-12-08 Thread Sittampalam, Ganesh
Gregory Crosswhite wrote: Tom Tobin wrote: The 3 clause BSD license is officially a GPL compatible license. See: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses It is within the terms of the GPL to link GPL code to a bunch of BSD3 code as long as you abide by

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: hakyll-0.1

2009-12-08 Thread Magnus Therning
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Gregory Crosswhite [..] If Pandoc is LGPL, then I think that means we are dealing with an entirely different situation, one in which the library user can choose whatever license he or she likes for his or her own code as long as any modifications to the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: hakyll-0.1

2009-12-08 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
Gregory Crosswhite gcr...@phys.washington.edu writes: That really just means that BSD3 code can be used in GPL code; you still have to release your own code as GPL if you are including any GPL code. Not quite true: it means that any code your BSD3 library gets used in has to have a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: hakyll-0.1

2009-12-08 Thread minh thu
2009/12/8 Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com: Gregory Crosswhite gcr...@phys.washington.edu writes: That really just means that BSD3 code can be used in GPL code; you still have to release your own code as GPL if you are including any GPL code. Not quite true: it means that any

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: hakyll-0.1

2009-12-08 Thread Ketil Malde
minh thu not...@gmail.com writes: I wonder how APIs are covered. I don't think an API would be covered. The API is the standard way to use something, if copyright licenses cover usage like this, any executable will be a derivative of the operating system and (possibly) the compiler. Why

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: hakyll-0.1

2009-12-07 Thread Tom Tobin
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Jasper van der Jeugt jasper...@gmail.com wrote: Hakyll is a simple static site generator library, mostly aimed at blogs. It supports markdown, tex and html templates. It is inspired by the ruby Jekyll program. It has a very small codebase because it makes

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: hakyll-0.1

2009-12-07 Thread Jasper Van der Jeugt
Okay, You're right. I will change the license info as soon as possible. Kind regards, Jasper Van der Jeugt On Dec 8, 2009 6:30 AM, Tom Tobin korp...@korpios.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Jasper van der Jeugt jasper...@gmail.com wrote: Hakyll is a simp... I hate to say this, but

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: hakyll-0.1

2009-12-07 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Tom Tobin wrote: I hate to say this, but it looks like you're violating the GPL by not releasing Hakyll under the GPL, since Pandoc is GPL'd. Not necessarily. The 3 clause BSD license is officially a GPL compatible license. See: