relicensing of pandoc-types

relicensing of pandoc-types

[John MacFarlane]

By permission of the contributors, I have relicensed
pandoc-types as BSD3.  pandoc itself will remain
GPL-licensed, but this change will make it possible for
BSD3-licensed libraries to create interfaces with pandoc.

For example, a BSD3-licensed CommonMark library could
include a module that converts its own AST into a
Pandoc structure, so that it could be used with all
of Pandoc's writers.  And a BSD3-licensed text processing
program could be made to accept input or generate output
in pandoc-JSON, so it could be used with pandoc in a pipe.

John

Re: relicensing of pandoc-types

[Daniel Bergey]

On 2015-03-15 at 21:07, John MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu> wrote:
> By permission of the contributors, I have relicensed
> pandoc-types as BSD3.  pandoc itself will remain
> GPL-licensed, but this change will make it possible for
> BSD3-licensed libraries to create interfaces with pandoc.
>
> For example, a BSD3-licensed CommonMark library could
> include a module that converts its own AST into a
> Pandoc structure, so that it could be used with all
> of Pandoc's writers.  And a BSD3-licensed text processing
> program could be made to accept input or generate output
> in pandoc-JSON, so it could be used with pandoc in a pipe.

Can you update github (and maybe Hackage) to reflect this?  I'm
preparing a first release of a filter, diagrams-pandoc[1], which I'd
prefer to license BSD3 to match other Diagrams packages.

I can make a pull request if that would help.

Thanks,
bergey

Footnotes: 
[1]  https://github.com/diagrams/diagrams-pandoc