[Haskell-community] Haskell language API copyright status?

[Nicholas Papadonis]

Was Miranda a closed license?

> On May 24, 2020, at 11:30 AM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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 <mailto: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/ <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> <mailto: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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