Licensing of Haskell code

[Ganesh Sittampalam]

On Mon, 19 May 2003 10:20:01 -0400 (EDT), Mark Carroll
<mark@chaos.x-philes.com> wrote:

>It would be really great if it were somehow easy for Haskell developers to
>be easily able to check the licensing status of various bits of code -
>tools, libraries, etc. - that their software uses, or that they are
>thinking of having it use. It's not too hard to look into now, but after
>the Haskell community and hierarchical libraries have grown much more I
>don't know if one might wish that something had been built in early on
>that somehow eases semi-automated checking.

Another question is what should happen if there are two "competing"
libraries that do the same thing but have different licenses. For example,
the existing library Foo.Bar is GPL, and someone needs a BSD version so
writes their own.

Cheers,

Ganesh