[Haskell-cafe] containers license issue

[Niklas Larsson]

2012/12/12 Niklas Larsson <metaniklas at gmail.com>:
>> 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

Gah, I should proofread! NO copyright issue, of course.