[m-dev.] Contribution: Pretty Printing Library

[Fergus Henderson]

On 12-Apr-2000, Ralph Becket <rbeck at microsoft.com> wrote:
> > From: Mark Anthony BROWN [mailto:dougl at cs.mu.OZ.AU]
> > 
> > Here's the next lot.  There are still some outstanding issues:
> > 
> > 	- Copyright stuff.  I'd rather leave discussion of this to
> > 	  someone who knows what they are talking about.
> 
> Good question - who, if anyone, does own the copyright on LGPL'd
> code?

That depends.  Initially, the author(s) and/or their
employer(s) own the copyright.  But they can sell it or
assign it to other people or organizations.

> What would such a copyright mean?

The copyright owner (and no-one else) is allowed to
re-release the software under a different license.

The LGPL imposes requirements that are sometimes burdensome.
We would like to retain the ability to release the Mercury
library with a less restrictive license.

For that reason, it would be nicer for us if you could
release this module under a BSD-style license, or make it
public domain.

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