Merging network and network-bytestring: license question

Johan Tibell johan.tibell at gmail.com
Thu Oct 28 13:34:46 EDT 2010


Hi,

While looking into merging the network and network-bytestring
packages, I noticed that their licenses differ slightly. I've attached
both licenses in the end of this email for reference.

How do I merge the two licenses? I own the copyright on
network-bytestring, so I could change that license to be the same as
the one used for network. Is this the right way to go? Is it possible
to move the whole resulting library to the two-clause BSD license,
which is more common on Hackage? Would that mean getting approval from
everyone who has ever contributed to the code base?

Johan

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network license
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network-bytestring license
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Copyright Johan Tibell 2007

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