[Haskell-cafe] containers license issue

[Niklas Larsson]

> The problem is that FXT library is GPL and thus containers package can not
> be considered as BSD3. And it means that it can not be used in my case
> (closed source software).
>
> Is this logic actually correct and containers should be considered as GPL?
>
> The package is widely used by other packages and the only way I see right
> now is to fix sources to reimplement this functionality, which is not good
> option.
>

There is no copied code from FXT (which can be said with certainty as
FXT is a C library), hence the there can be copyright issue.

Niklas