[Haskell-community] Haskell language API copyright status?

[Nicholas Papadonis]

Thank you!  That puts the language in a better position in regards to being open for anyone to use.

LICENSE:
"The authors and publisher intend this Report to belong to the entire
Haskell community, and grant permission to copy and distribute it for
any purpose, provided that it is reproduced in its entirety, including
this Notice." "For any purpose" would include implementation of the
language it specifies.

> On May 24, 2020, at 11:19 AM, Gershom B <gershomb at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> See the (very open) license of the Haskell Report 
> https://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/haskell2010/ <https://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/haskell2010/>
> 
> On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 11:16 AM Nicholas Papadonis <nick.papadonis.ml at gmail.com <mailto: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 
> _______________________________________________
> Haskell-community mailing list
> Haskell-community at haskell.org <mailto:Haskell-community at haskell.org>
> http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-community <http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-community>

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-community/attachments/20200524/042de97f/attachment.html>