GHC Ownership

[Simon Marlow]

> At 2002-06-11 08:18, Simon Marlow wrote:
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> >This is *so* annoying when all we're trying to do is write=20
> free software=20
> >here.  =20
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> This reminds me... who legally owns GHC?
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>  * the University of Glasgow?
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>  * Simon and Simon?
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>  * Microsoft?
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>  * many different people and institutions?

Mostly the University of Glasgow.  Various bits belong to other
copyright holders: code from the Haskell Report(s), code from the FFI
spec, the regex library from FreeBSD, and GMP.  None of it is owned by
Microsoft.

Cheers,
	Simon