Re: New License Request: The Glasgow Haskell Compiler License

2017-06-13 Thread Richard Fontana
Re-reading the SPDX matching guidelines, one sentence I had been completely overlooking seems to address some of the concerns I've had about BSD-3-Clause-variant licenses: "T he text indicated as such can be replaced with similar values (e.g., a different name or generic term; different date)

RE: New License Request: The Glasgow Haskell Compiler License

2017-06-13 Thread Wheeler, David A
Richard Fontana: > The way I read the matching guidelines this license does not actually match > to BSD-3-Clause, even though it obviously should. I think the problem is > that I am reading the matching guidelines more literally than they may be > intended to be read, but given that this is

Re: New License Request: The Glasgow Haskell Compiler License

2017-06-13 Thread Richard Fontana
The way I read the matching guidelines this license does not actually match to BSD-3-Clause, even though it obviously should. I think the problem is that I am reading the matching guidelines more literally than they may be intended to be read, but given that this is supposed to be a formal