[Haskell-community] Haskell language API copyright status?

[Gershom B]

See the (very open) license of the Haskell Report
https://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/haskell2010/

On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 11:16 AM Nicholas Papadonis <
nick.papadonis.ml at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> You may be aware of Oracle vs. Google in regards to the Java API being
> copyrighted.  The case is still in progress.
>
> When the Haskell language was created, including any books on it, the
> authors became the copyright holder for the language API that one uses to
> code with.  Is anyone aware of any license which grants people free use of
> this API.  I saw various licenses for compilers, but was concerned that was
> only for the code implementing the compiler/interpreter.  If so, what is it?
>
> There could be an interpretation that a derivative work of the compiler /
> interpreter implementation is indeed the language itself.  Therefore if the
> compiler / interpreter and it’s derivative is freely licensed, then the
> language API is as well.
>
> I ask because it’s my understanding C/C++ language API was licensed
> through ISO, which grants a free license to anyone implementing or using
> the language API.
>
> Appreciate your guidance.
>
> Thank you,
> Nick
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