[project @ 2005-09-20 12:07:58 by simonmar]

Update the license: we now use a BSD license, although the release
will be binary-only.

1 files changed, 59 insertions, 151 deletions

diff --git a/ghc/docs/vh/vh.xml b/ghc/docs/vh/vh.xml
index 0b21f87355..f7d636a71f 100644
--- a/ghc/docs/vh/vh.xml
+++ b/ghc/docs/vh/vh.xml
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
 	  here:</para>
 
 	<para><ulink
-	  url="http://research.microsoft.com/downloads/"><literal>http://research.microsoft.com/downloads/</literal></ulink></para>
+	  url="http://www.haskell.org/visualhaskell/"><literal>http://www.haskell.org/visualhaskell/</literal></ulink></para>
       </section>
 
       <section id="release-notes">
@@ -84,10 +84,21 @@
 		the bundled GHC is not a released version, it may have bugs and
 		quirks itself: please report them as usual to
 		<email>glasgow-haskell-bugs@haskell.org</email>.</para>
-	    </listitem>
-	  </itemizedlist>
-	</section>
+	  </listitem>
+
+	  <listitem>
+	    <para>We're not making source code for the plugin generally
+	      available at this time, due to licensing restrictions on the
+	      Visual Studio APIs that the plugin uses (for more
+	      information see <ulink
+		url="http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/extend/">Visual Studio
+		Extensibility Center</ulink>).  If you're interested in
+	      contributing to Visual Haskell, please get in touch with the
+	      authors.</para>
+	  </listitem>
+	</itemizedlist>
       </section>
+    </section>
 
       <section id="sec-bugs">
 	<title>Getting support, reporting bugs</title>
@@ -106,153 +117,50 @@
       <section id="sec-license">
 	<title>License</title>
 
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     </section>