[Haskell-cafe] GPL answers from the SFLC (WAS: Re: ANN: hakyll-0.1)

[Stephen Tetley]

On 5 March 2010 09:53, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> wrote:

> Now I'm even more confused.  How is hosting on Hackage an issue in [1]?

Hi Magnus

The issue arouse when Tom Tobin spotted Hackage was hosting hakyll
(libBSD3) that depends in pandoc (libGPL). Hakyll's author is allowed
to privately write any code he wants that uses GPL code, Hackage come
into it as he published on Hackage.

Best wishes

Stephen