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Another victory.
Copied here to tell you the news. I believe there is already someone
packaging GHC.
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Subject: License
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 06:07:54 -0700
Folks
I'm glad to be able to tell you that both Glasgow University
and Microsoft have agreed to license the Glasgow Haskell Compiler
under the "BSD license minus advertising clause". The text is
below.
GHC is, at last, officially open source.
Simon
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