I'm no lawyer either, but I was involved in writing the sentence "Modified versions of this Report may also be copied and distributed for any purpose, provided that the modified version is clearly presented as such, and that it does not claim to be a definition of the Haskell 98 Language." At the time our focus was on people being able to re-publish the Haskell Report itself without concern about infringing Cambridge University Press's copyright. Our intent was
* to allow arbitrary re-use for any purpose * except only that re-published versions should not claim to be the original Definition of Haskell 98. So, like Simon M, I don't see any problem with your re-use. (But I am no lawyer.) Simon From: Pavel Zelinsky [mailto:pzeli...@us.ibm.com] Sent: 07 January 2013 23:27 To: Ian Lynagh Cc: cvs-ghc@haskell.org; Simon Marlow; Simon Peyton-Jones Subject: Re: Question about extensible-exceptions (to official extensible-exceptions maintainer - GHC HQ) Hi Ian, As you suggested, maybe it is possible to consider code from report as a "modified report", but it does not solve the problem unless the condition of Haskell 98 Report (Haskell FFI) license is satisfied: Modified versions of this Report may also be copied and distributed for any purpose, provided that the modified version is clearly presented as such, and that it does not claim to be a definition of the Haskell 98 Language. I know, it might sound awkward, but to satisfy this condition of the license you have to make such required statement in the code! That is why the second question I asked was: > 2) If the derived code was compiled with the following language in the > license: "modified version is clearly presented as such, and that it does > not claim to be a definition of the Haskell 98 Language"? > Same questions about the "Haskell Foreign..." license. Thanks, Pavel Pavel Zelinsky Senior Manager and Group Leader, DemandTec Softlines Science IBM Enterprise Marketing Management ________________________________ Phone: 1-303-800-4562 E-mail: pzeli...@us.ibm.com<mailto:t...@us.ibm.com> [IBM] 1 Franklin Parkway San Mateo, CA 94403 United States [Inactive hide details for Ian Lynagh ---01/07/2013 04:07:47 PM---On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 03:51:57PM -0700, Pavel Zelinsky wrote]Ian Lynagh ---01/07/2013 04:07:47 PM---On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 03:51:57PM -0700, Pavel Zelinsky wrote: > From: Ian Lynagh <i...@well-typed.com<mailto:i...@well-typed.com>> To: Pavel Zelinsky/Boulder/IBM@IBMUS, Cc: Simon Marlow <marlo...@gmail.com<mailto:marlo...@gmail.com>>, "cvs-ghc@haskell.org<mailto:cvs-ghc@haskell.org>" <cvs-ghc@haskell.org<mailto:cvs-ghc@haskell.org>>, Simon Peyton-Jones <simo...@microsoft.com<mailto:simo...@microsoft.com>> Date: 01/07/2013 04:07 PM Subject: Re: Question about extensible-exceptions (to official extensible-exceptions maintainer - GHC HQ) ________________________________ On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 03:51:57PM -0700, Pavel Zelinsky wrote: > > Thank you all for your attention to the problem! I appreciate it! > > Let me try to clarify the question I asked. > > First of all, the same question was raised with Haskell_Containers package > and response from Milan Straka has completely resolved the problem, I hope > to receive similar response on the Extensible-Exceptions if > possible/applicable. > > Problem is quite simple: > - Extensible-Exceptions (similar to Containers) license claims that code is > derived from multiple sources including Haskell 98 Report and Haskell FFI > - Full license of Haskell 98 Report and Haskell FFI does not contain any > code license, but speaks only about entire report or modified report > - So this represents a problem for our attorneys, because license of > Extensible-Exceptions in unclear I'm still not a lawyer, but I would imagine that: * The Haskell 98 report licence applies to the whole report, including any code it contains, any APIs it defines, etc * If you take some code or an API from the report, then you have a modified version of the report * You will have the same problem with the base package Thanks Ian -- Ian Lynagh, Haskell Consultant Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/
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