[MLton] past and future of mlton.org

[Adam Goode]

On 03/04/2010 09:54 AM, Matthew Fluet wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Adam Goode <adam at spicenitz.org> wrote:
>> Moving to Google Code sounds like a great idea. I can tell you that
>> Fedora's interpretation of MLton's license is "MIT", so that is
>> compatible with code hosting.
> 
> Hmm.  The copyright/license headers in code files states:
> 
>  # MLton is released under a BSD-style license.
>  # See the file MLton-LICENSE for details.
> 
> But, IANAL.  (And, perhaps, the MIT license is considered a "BSD-style
> license".)

By their analysis, it's the "MLton variant" of the MIT license. It's the
text of the license that matters (structural equivalence instead of
nominal?).

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/MIT#MLton_variant



Adam

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