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Re: Good news: Free Haskell to come out RSN!



On 13 Jan 1999, Stephen Zander wrote:

> >>>>> "Gergely" == Gergely Madarasz <gorgo@caesar.elte.hu> writes:
>     Gergely> Hmm... isn't the Artistic licence compatible with GPL ? I
>     Gergely> thought it was...
> 
> Its *less* restrictive than the GNU licence, if that's what you mean.

While it is generally less restrictive, there are some restrictions which
aren't there in the GPL so it is not compatible with it. So it could not
be linked with gpl-ed code, like libreadline. Thats why it would be nice
an Artistic+GPL licence... like, for example, in case of perl.

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