This package was debianized by Arjan Oosting <arjanoosting@home.nl> on
Tue,  8 Aug 2006 00:09:39 +0200.

It was downloaded from http://www.eecs.tufts.edu/~rdocki01/edison.html

The original upstream author is Chris Okasaki 
Later contributions were by Andres Bromage, Robert Dockins and David F. Place. 
The current upstream maintainer is Robert Dockins <robdockins@fastmail.fm>

Copyright: 
	(c) 1998-1999 Chris Okasaki
	(c) 2002 Andrew Bromage
	(c) 2006 Robert Dockins
	(c) 2006 David F. Place

License:

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The Debian packaging is (c) 2006, Arjan Oosting <arjanoosting@home.nl> and
is licensed under the same terms as Edison itself.

The license information in the package is not consistent as the
COPYRIGHT file contains the MIT license, but the source files contain
the following statements that the source is BSD3. I asked upstream for
clarification and got the following answer:

Van: 	Robert Dockins <robdockins@fastmail.fm>
Antwoordadres: 	robdockins@fastmail.fm
Aan: 	Arjan Oosting <arjanoosting@home.nl>
Onderwerp: 	Re: License clarification of haskell-edison
Datum: 	Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:23:55 -0400  (23:23 CEST)


On Thursday 21 September 2006 16:11, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to get the Edison library into the Debian archive[1]

Excellent!

> and 
> during that process some question arose about the license of Edison. The
> README file states
>
>  "Edison is released under a BSD3 style license.  See the COPYRIGHT
>   file for details."
>
> and the source files state
>
>  "License     :  BSD3; see COPYRIGHT file for terms and conditions"
>
> But if I look at the COPYRIGHT file it contains the MIT license [2]
> instead of the BSD3 license [3].
>
> This means that either the COPYRIGHT file is wrong ore the License
> statements in the source files and the README. I guess the wrong license
> was pasted in COPYRIGHT, but I do need clarification before the package
> can be included into Debian.

Ugh.  I see I did not pay sufficient attention to the actual license wording.  
It is indeed the MIT license (as originally licenced by Dr. Okasaki), and the 
text of the COPYRIGHT file is correct.  My classification of it as a BSD3 
license, is therefore incorrect.

Sorry for the confusion.  I'll get this straightened out for the next release.  
In the meantime, the text of the COPYRIGHT file is the correct license.

> Greetings Arjan
>
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=382184
> [2] http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
> [3] http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php

-- 
Rob Dockins

Talk softly and drive a Sherman tank.
Laugh hard, it's a long way to the bank.
       -- TMBG
