[MLton] MLton library project

[Ville Laurikari]

On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 08:34:12AM -0700, Stephen Weeks wrote:
> * Contributors must agree to release under the MLton license (BSD).

There is one potential problem here.

The MLton license (http://mlton.org/License) is not just a license,
but a copyright notice, license, and disclaimer all in one.

Because of the copyright notice aspect, code contributed from SSH
cannot just directly refer to the MLton license.  SSH wants to keep
the copyright for most code; the license and disclaimer parts are
fine, though.

We were thinking of using this:

  Copyright (C) 2006 SSH Communications Security, Helsinki, Finland
  MLton is released under a BSD-style license.
  See the file MLton-LICENSE for details.

but this creates a conflict (or at least ambiguity), since
`MLton-LICENSE' claims a different copyright.

My thoughts are that `MLton-LICENSE' should be refactored to two
pieces:
  - the copyright (Cejtin, Fluet, Jagannathan, Weeks, NEC)
  - the license and disclaimer (without hard coded references to
    owners)

What do you think?

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