[Haskell-cafe] license question

[Benjamin L. Russell]

Hello Henrique,

That license, The Glasgow Haskell Compiler License, available at http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc-hashedrepo/libraries/haskell-src/LICENSE, reads as follows:

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The Glasgow Haskell Compiler License

Copyright 2004, The University Court of the University of Glasgow. 
All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

- Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,
this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
 
- Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,
this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation
and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
 
- Neither name of the University nor the names of its contributors may be
used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without
specific prior written permission. 

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF
GLASGOW AND THE CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES,
INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW OR THE CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR
SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER
CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
DAMAGE.
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According to the above conditions, the following conditions hold:

* In redistributions of source code, you are required to retain the above copyright notice, the above list of conditions, and the above disclaimer.

* In restributions in binary form, you are required to retain the above copyright notice, the above list of conditions, and the above disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with your distribution.

However, according to the above conditions, in neither case are you necessarily required to include your name in the copyright notice.

Benjamin L. Russell

--- On Wed, 5/7/08, Henrique Ferreiro García <hferreiro at udc.es> wrote:

> Hello everybody,
> 
> I have one question regarding a licensing issue. I am
> developing a
> library to parse and pretty-print the Core Erlang language
> and it is
> heavily based on the modules included in haskell-src.
> 
> What I want to know is if I have to reproduce all of the
> LICENSE file
> included in that package with my name included in the
> copyright notice
> or what other thing do I have to do.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> -- 
> Henrique Ferreiro García <hferreiro at udc.es>
> 
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