Re: New License Request: The Glasgow Haskell Compiler License

2017-06-13 Thread Richard Fontana
riginal Message - From: "W. Trevor King" <wk...@tremily.us> To: "David A Wheeler" <dwhee...@ida.org> Cc: "Richard Fontana" <rfont...@redhat.com>, "J Lovejoy" <opensou...@jilayne.com>, "SPDX-legal" <spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org&

RE: New License Request: The Glasgow Haskell Compiler License

2017-06-13 Thread Wheeler, David A
Richard Fontana: > The way I read the matching guidelines this license does not actually match > to BSD-3-Clause, even though it obviously should. I think the problem is > that I am reading the matching guidelines more literally than they may be > intended to be read, but given that this is

Re: New License Request: The Glasgow Haskell Compiler License

2017-06-13 Thread Richard Fontana
To: "David Wheeler" <dwhee...@ida.org> Cc: "SPDX-legal" <spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org>, "David Parrish" <daveparr...@tutanota.com> Sent: Thursday, June 1, 2017 12:02:03 AM Subject: Re: New License Request: The Glasgow Haskell Compiler License H

Re: New License Request: The Glasgow Haskell Compiler License

2017-05-31 Thread J Lovejoy
Hi David (P), David W is right - this is the same license as BSD-3-Clause. The only difference is in the “replaceable” text (i.e., the names) as per the license matching guidelines and which you can see visually in the red text on the license webpage here:

RE: New License Request: The Glasgow Haskell Compiler License

2017-05-01 Thread Wheeler, David A
David Parrish: > 1. Provide a proposed Full Name for the license or exception. > The Glasgow Haskell Compiler License > 2. Provide a proposed Short Identifier. > ghc >3. Provide a functioning url reference to the license or exception text, >either from the author or a community recognized source.

New License Request: The Glasgow Haskell Compiler License

2017-05-01 Thread David Parrish
1. Provide a proposed Full Name for the license or exception. The Glasgow Haskell Compiler License 2. Provide a proposed Short Identifier. ghc 3. Provide a functioning url reference to the license or exception text, either from the author or a community recognized source.