Haskell 98

Manuel M T Chakravarty chak@cse.unsw.edu.au
Fri, 20 Sep 2002 18:38:49 +1000 (EST)


Dylan Thurston <dpt@math.harvard.edu> wrote,

> On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 02:36:01PM +0100, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> > The copyright notice is, I believe, agreed with CUP, but I must check
> > that.  The online versions will remain available.
> 
> Will the online version be available with the current copyright, or
> will it only be available with the addition of 'non-commercial'?  If
> the copyright on the online version includes non-commercial, there
> might be problems.  For instance, Debian includes the Haskell report
> in its distribution, which some people put onto CDs and sell, which
> would be a violation of the non-commercial terms.

In particular, as the "old" online versions didn't carry
such a restriction, a restriction on the "new" (ie,
corrected) online versions might mean that people might use
the old version where they should use the new, which
wouldn't be in our interest.

Cheers,
Manuel