License in the Mac installer

Manuel M T Chakravarty chak at cse.unsw.edu.au
Tue Feb 12 00:56:01 EST 2008


Mac installer packages usually present a license to the user to accept  
during the installation process.  Consequently, I added what I think  
is a correct licensing document to the tree at

   http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc/distrib/MacOS/installer-docs/ 
license.html

However, this is of course a platform independent issue and so I think  
it might be useful to discuss the document and whether we want  
propagate it further towards the root of the tree.  Here the main  
points:

* The main license says that GHC is

     Copyright [2002..2008], The University Court of the University of  
Glasgow and others.

   The "and others" is a weak attempt at acknowledging non-Uni of  
Glasgow authors (cf http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/740).

* GMP is in most/many GHC distributions.  Hence, we need to display  
the LGPL.

* My understanding is that any distribution that uses readline and/or  
System.Console.Readline at all must display the GPL. It's the GPL -  
not the LGPL - so whether readline is linked dynamically or statically  
makes no difference.

Did I get anything wrong?

Manuel



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