Haskell Platform Proposal: HLint

Malcolm Wallace malcolm.wallace at me.com
Fri Nov 12 15:22:36 EST 2010


>> "The authors and publisher intend this Report to belong to the entire
>> Haskell community, and grant permission to copy and distribute it  
>> for any
>> purpose, provided that it is reproduced in its entirety, including  
>> this
>> Notice.  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 language  
>> Haskell
>> 98[2010]."
>
> Ah, so you read the second sentence as an alternative, so you can
> comply by picking either the first or the second. Does that mean if we
> pick the second that we do not need to include the notice? :-)

It seems to me that if you distribute a modified version of the  
Report, but still include the notice, then you are explicitly  
disobeying its terms.

Regards,
     Malcolm


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