[Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform - BSD License?

[Carter Schonwald]

it looks like ghc itself is under a BSD3 style license, if thats any help.
So per se, I think you can assume youre dealing with a BSD3 through and
through system.

see here for the ghc info
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/license

(this is something i've been sorting out for my own projects too, and to
the best of my knowledge its all bsd3)

admission: I'm actually likely to be providing a repackaging of ghc & the
haskell platform with some additional tools for data analysis / machine
learning to some enterprise customers come the fall, so thats why I have
any thoughts on this matter. (but bear in mind that folks are this list
aren't lawyers :) )

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 7:46 AM, Sai Hemanth K <saihemanth at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Magnus.
> I guess it means that the license of individual packages is what
> that matters.
> The platform on the whole does not have any single license.
>
> In other words, I cannot just say that am using haskell platform but that
> I have to say, I am using x,y and z libraries which in turn are using a, b,
> c and d libraries.
>
>
> > A quick search suggests that ..:
> Ouch! Apologies. Guess I was looking at all the wrong places or my
> google-fu is embarrassingly bad.
>
>
>
> Thanks again for the links!
>
> Hemanth K
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org>wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Sai Hemanth K <saihemanth at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> >
>> > I am trying to use haskell for building a tool (in a commercial
>> setting).  I
>> > am trying to figure out what all licenses are involved here.
>> > Is there a single license for the entire haskell platform (and the
>> runtime)
>> > or is it that I need to look at the individual licenses of all the
>> > libraries and tools that make up the platform and point to them
>> separately?
>> >
>> > The wikipedia page on haskell platform [0] says Haskell Platform is BSD
>> > licensed. But I do not find any such info elsewhere.
>> > Any pointers on this would be greatly appreciated,
>>
>> A quick search suggests that this still hasn't been decided:
>>
>> http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/ticket/85
>>
>> http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/wiki/AddingPackages#Interimlicensepolicy
>>
>> I believe it still holds that all packages included in
>> haskell-platform are BSD3 licensed.
>>
>> /M
>>
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