[Haskell] Re: haskell.org Public Domain

[Ashley Yakeley]

Aaron Denney wrote:
> On 2006-01-12, Malcolm Wallace <Malcolm.Wallace at cs.york.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
>>However, it also needs a disclaimer of warranty,
> 
> 
> Agreed, agreed, agreed.
> 
> I'd prefer to find a prewritten license that covers this, of course.

If we can't find one, we might lift sections 5 & 6 from the Creative 
Commons "by" license.
<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/legalcode>

So we end up cobbling together our own license.

Also, Lawrence Lessig (who presumably wrote the CC public domain 
dedication) thinks dedicating something to the public domain is hard, 
even just for the United States.
<http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/001066.shtml>
CC public domain dedication: 
<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/>

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Ashley Yakeley