[Haskell-cafe] Re: ANN: hakyll-0.1

Ben Franksen ben.franksen at online.de
Tue Dec 8 16:30:40 EST 2009


Ketil Malde wrote:
> minh thu <noteed at gmail.com> writes:
>> Why should your code be licensed under GPL?
> 
> I think your code is covered by whatever license you wish.
> 
> An aggregate work, on the other hand, would need to be covered by the
> GPL, and all source code would have to be available under GPL terms.  So
> if you distribute your code linked to or incorporating the GPL library,
> the whole must conform to the GPL license (source availability and
> redistributatbility, etc).
> 
> Your contributions could still be licensed under a different license
> (e.g. BSD), as long as the licensing doesn't prevent somebody else to
> pick it up and relicense it under GPL.
> 
> At least, that's how I understand things.

Right. So hakyll is absolutely fine with a BSD3 license, AFAICS.

Cheers
Ben



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