[Haskell-community] Haskell language API copyright status?

[Brandon Allbery]

As a historical note, the openness of the Haskell spec was a reaction
to the licensing of the research language Miranda and as such was
quite intentional.

On 5/24/20, Nicholas Papadonis <nick.papadonis.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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