[Haskell-cafe] GPL License of H-Matrix and prelude numeric

Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com
Wed Jan 26 07:14:55 CET 2011


On 26 January 2011 16:10, John Millikin <jmillikin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 22:07, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
> <ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Voila: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#IfLibraryIsGPL
>>
>> (Note: in the past they said otherwise.)
>
> Important: "or a GPL-compatible license"

You're right; they seem to have changed it again to add that phrase
since last I (properly) read it.

However, my understanding that this property is then transitive: if
Foo is GPL, Bar depends on Foo and Baz depends on Bar, then Baz must
also be released under a GPL-compatible license.

-- 
Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
Ivan.Miljenovic at gmail.com
IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com



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