Firstly, I'd like to thank all the Hugs developers for making such a
nifty interpreter. I've found Hugs to be easy and pleasant to use
while learning Haskell. (I'm a first year Computing undergraduate.)
I was pleased to hear that the next version of Hugs will be going Open
Source under the Artistic Licence. I'd like to suggest that you
consider offering a choice of licences, and support the GPL also.
The reason for this is the GNU Readline library. Using Hugs
interactively with this library compiled in is much more pleasant than
without, especially in an xterm. But in order to distribute
precompiled binaries using Readline, they must be GPLed. If you could
do as Perl does, and offer a choice of two licences, that would become
possible. It would also make it easier for people to incorporate code
from Hugs into GPLed applications. (Haskell as an application
scripting language? Yikes!)
Anyway, whichever licence you choose, best of luck with the
forthcoming release.
--
Ed Avis
