Re: [Haskell-cafe] short licensing question

2010-01-12 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 09:30 -0800, Andrey Sisoyev wrote: Svein Ove Aas wrote: In this case, LGPL is a problem. It requires you to offer a way to re-link such binaries against new versions/implementations of the library, which in practice requires it to be either open source or

Re: [Haskell-cafe] short licensing question

2010-01-12 Thread minh thu
2010/1/12 Duncan Coutts duncan.cou...@googlemail.com: On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 09:30 -0800, Andrey Sisoyev wrote: Svein Ove Aas wrote: In this case, LGPL is a problem. It requires you to offer a way to re-link such binaries against new versions/implementations of the library, which in

Re: [Haskell-cafe] short licensing question

2010-01-12 Thread Felipe Lessa
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:24:22AM +0100, minh thu wrote: 2010/1/12 Duncan Coutts duncan.cou...@googlemail.com: Any user can then perform the last step themselves and if they're really lucky they might get that to work with a slightly modified version of the LGPL'ed package. In practise of

Re: [Haskell-cafe] short licensing question

2010-01-12 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 10:24 +0100, minh thu wrote: In short, if I understand you correctly, you would just have to provide your code in unlinked form regardless of the existence of some tool to create another ABI-compatible version of the LGPL library. Right. The procedure I mentioned is

Re: [Haskell-cafe] short licensing question

2010-01-12 Thread Sebastian Fischer
On Jan 12, 2010, at 1:38 PM, Duncan Coutts wrote: But that is the intent of the LGPL, to protect the rights of the users *receiving* the code, not to guarantee that modifications are available to the entire world. I wonder whether the following statements are valid: When I write a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] short licensing question

2010-01-12 Thread Sebastian Fischer
On Jan 12, 2010, at 8:46 PM, Sebastian Fischer wrote: Am I allowed to distribute the sources under BSD3 and the binary under LGPL? Would that make sense? Maybe not, because anyone who distributes a binary of my program or derivative work must license it under LGPL anyway. Well it may

Re: [Haskell-cafe] short licensing question

2010-01-12 Thread Ketil Malde
Sebastian Fischer s...@informatik.uni-kiel.de writes: I wonder whether the following statements are valid: You want my layman's opinion? When I write a program that uses an LGPL library, I am allowed to distribute the *sources* of my program under a permissive (non- copyleft) license like

Re: [Haskell-cafe] short licensing question

2010-01-11 Thread Don Stewart
sebf: Hello Café, when writing a Haskell library that uses two other Haskell libraries -- one licensed under BSD3 and one under LGPL -- what are allowed possibilities for licensing the written package? PublicDomain? BSD3? LGPL? Libraries don't link in other things as such -- the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] short licensing question

2010-01-11 Thread Svein Ove Aas
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Don Stewart d...@galois.com wrote: sebf: Hello Café, when writing a Haskell library that uses two other Haskell libraries -- one licensed under BSD3 and one under LGPL -- what are allowed possibilities for licensing the written package? PublicDomain? BSD3?

Re: [Haskell-cafe] short licensing question

2010-01-11 Thread Ketil Malde
Svein Ove Aas svein@aas.no writes: when writing a Haskell library that uses two other Haskell libraries -- one licensed under BSD3 and one under LGPL -- what are allowed possibilities for licensing the written package? Any resulting binaries might contain a mixture of such libraries, and

Re: [Haskell-cafe] short licensing question

2010-01-11 Thread Andrey Sisoyev
Svein Ove Aas wrote: In this case, LGPL is a problem. It requires you to offer a way to re-link such binaries against new versions/implementations of the library, which in practice requires it to be either open source or dynamically linked. Don't understand that. Can't we just put a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] short licensing question

2010-01-11 Thread Tom Tobin
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 6:58 AM, Sebastian Fischer s...@informatik.uni-kiel.de wrote: when writing a Haskell library that uses two other Haskell libraries -- one licensed under BSD3 and one under LGPL -- what are allowed possibilities for licensing the written package? PublicDomain? BSD3? LGPL?

Re: [Haskell-cafe] short licensing question

2010-01-11 Thread Matthias-Christian Ott
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:02:46PM -0600, Tom Tobin wrote: On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 6:58 AM, Sebastian Fischer s...@informatik.uni-kiel.de wrote: when writing a Haskell library that uses two other Haskell libraries -- one licensed under BSD3 and one under LGPL -- what are allowed

Re: [Haskell-cafe] short licensing question

2010-01-11 Thread Sebastian Fischer
On Jan 11, 2010, at 2:08 PM, Don Stewart wrote: Libraries don't link in other things as such -- the .cabal file is the only thing that ties them together -- so you can use whatever license you like. On Jan 11, 2010, at 7:02 PM, Tom Tobin wrote: I think in your case you can license the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] short licensing question

2010-01-11 Thread Jeremy Shaw
What reasons do people have to use a BSD license over a Public Domain license, for example with the license text from: http://www.lemur.com/pd-disclaimers.html ? Is the only difference that, with a BSD license, the copyright notice must be maintained? I've heard rumors that you can't

Re: [Haskell-cafe] short licensing question

2010-01-11 Thread wren ng thornton
Sebastian Fischer wrote: What reasons do people have to use a BSD license over a Public Domain license, for example with the license text from: http://www.lemur.com/pd-disclaimers.html ? Is the only difference that, with a BSD license, the copyright notice must be maintained? One important