[Haskell-cafe] blanket license for Haskell Platform?

[Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 06:37:49AM -0400, Eric Y. Kow wrote:
> - My user is concerned that a large number of having a large number of
>   individual licenses even though textually identical modulo author,
>   date, etc would mean a big hassle getting their lawyers and their
>   user's lawyers to sign off on each and every license

Sounds like you need a single copyright holder, not a blanket license (whatever
that means).  That means arranging copyright transfers (in the FSF/GNU style)
and getting every contributor whose code survives in the Platform to sign off
on it.

In other words, it's a major undertaking and by no means assured to succeed.

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Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, Jyväskylä, Finland
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