I was under the impression that Haskell the language (and by inference any definition of Haskell) were "free", period. i.e. may be distributed freely in a GNU/GPL manner. is this not correct? Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho > Sent: 17 March 1999 00:57 > To: 'Haskell list' > Subject: Permission to distribute the Haskell 98 reports as part of > Debian? > > > Hi, > > I am thinking of packaging some Haskell documentation for the Debian > distribution of GNU/Linux. Naturally, the Haskell 98 Report and the > Haskell 98 Library Report are candidates. I gather that they are meant > to be distributed, but nowhere can I find explicit permission to do so. > So please, would someone with the authority give me, Debian and all > redistributors of Debian the appropriate permission, or tell me I am not > allowed to distribute them? I'd need an explicit permission, since the > copyright laws defaults to `no permission whatsoever'. > > (Or better yet, give a general permission to everybody to > distribute them.) > > Thanks. > > -- > %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% > > "Fight them without becoming them." > (J. Michael Straczynski: Babylon 5, 3rd Season.) >
