[Haskell-cafe] Licenses and dependencies

[Carter Schonwald]

Wikipedia does not constitute legal advise


For those who wish to make their code public domain, SQLite is a good role
model.   The SQLite license is essentially the equivalent of being public
domain.

On Sunday, January 12, 2014, Alexander Berntsen wrote:

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> On 11/01/14 19:44, Ben Foppa wrote:
> > Essentially my goal is to waive all intellectual property rights to
> >  most of my Haskell projects, to the extent that, were I to
> > unintentionally sign away my intellectual property, my open-source
> >  contributions would be safe - what's the easiest way to do this?
> "Intellectual property" is not really a thing[0]. What it sounds like
> you want to do is ensure that your code stays free software. For this
> you need a licence that prevents people from using it for proprietary
> development. Here I recommend the GNU GPL[1]. But see [2] for a short
> introduction to "what licence should I be using".
>
> On 12/01/14 00:06, Carter Schonwald wrote:
> > GPL [has] never been tested in court.
> This is false[3].
>
> [0]  <https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr>
> [1]  <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/#GPL>
> [2]  <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-recommendations.html>
> [3]  See <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_GPL#Legal_status> for some
> specific cases
> - --
> Alexander
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