Brian Hulley wrote:
Chris Kuklewicz wrote:
Announcing: TextRegexLazy version 0.56
Where: Tarball from http://sourceforge.net/projects/lazy-regex
darcs get --partial http://evenmere.org/~chrisk/trl/stable/
License : BSD, except for
Great! - Thanks for all your hard work in making this available to
everyone!
DFAEngine.hs which is LGPL (derived from CTK light)
I sense some possible problems coming...
I wrote that ominous line, so I would have to agree.
[in another post]
Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
Hello Chris,
Wednesday, August 2, 2006, 3:16:58 PM, you wrote:
Announcing: TextRegexLazy version 0.56
your feature list is really strong! it will be great now to make it
a part of GHC standard distribution
Does the LGPL license for DFAEngine.hs use the static linking exception
or not?
[... snip ...]
I am fine because I have only released my derivative modules as source.
If we want to include it in GHC, then the simplest thing to do is ask the
original author, Manuel M T Chakravarty, to allow us to re-license this derived
work as BSD3 compatible. ( http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/ctk/ ) It is only
derived from part of the Lexer of CTKLight, and has been streamlined to be less
flexible than it used to be in order to be more suitable as a regex engine. And
if he does not want use to use it in GHC, then we live with 3 engines instead of 4.
On a more positive note, I note that the European Parliament voted (last
year iirc) that software patents are just a lot of rubbish and are null
and void in Europe so at least that's one tender bud of common sense
that's managed to burst through the asphalt.
Regards, Brian.
Yes, the European Parliament finally beat back the corrupt bureaucrats that were
trying to change the patent rules. But the forces of plutocracy will never give
up; it will be the same fight every year or two.
--
Chris
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