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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon larskuhtz

relicense to GPL

Open larskuhtz opened this issue 10 years ago • 2 comments

ghci-pretty depends on the hscolour package which is licensed under GPL. ghci-pretty should therefor be put under GPL, too.

larskuhtz avatar Dec 17 '14 22:12 larskuhtz

Well, it's only LGPL so it may be fine to link to it:

  • https://hackage.haskell.org/package/hscolour-1.24.4/src/LICENCE-LGPL

But I am too lazy to read through it and really understand it.

It would be nice to have this licensed under GPL too, though. :slightly_smiling_face:

xsebek avatar Oct 03 '22 18:10 xsebek

Yeah, if it is LGPL then it is probably fine. The question is if it is derived work. One could argue that the main functionality of the package comes from pretty printing, and syntax highlighting is just a generic add-on -- and there are alternatives packages that would provide the same functionality.

I am also fine with relicensing under GPL -- since it is a tool and not a library, it doesn't really matter and wouldn't break any user.

larskuhtz avatar Oct 03 '22 18:10 larskuhtz