[Haskell-cafe] containers license issue

[Niklas Larsson]

2012/12/12 David Thomas <davidleothomas at gmail.com>:
> Ah, that's more than we'd been told.  If that is the case, then containers
> is in violation of the GPL (unless they got permission to copy that code,
> separately), and either must obtain such permission, be relicensed,
> remove/replace that code.

I think it's just a confusion of language, the "derived" algorithm
clashes uncomfortably with the lawyerly "derived work". They are not
used in the same sense.

Niklas