[Haskell-cafe] containers license issue

[David Thomas]

This may be overconfident - how does copyright law deal with translations
in literature?  Still, it certainly makes infringement less likely, and the
earlier explicit statement that code was copied likely the result of
confusion.
On Dec 12, 2012 8:33 AM, "Niklas Larsson" <metaniklas at gmail.com> wrote:

> > 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
>
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