[Haskell-cafe] ANN: FileManip 0.1, an expressive filemanipulationlibrary

[Neil Mitchell]

Hi

> > no, i browsed the license file before asking my question (no non-restrictive
> > license needs to be longer than a page). if i wanted to use that library for
> > anything i want to distribute, my only chance to avoid the source re-distribution
> > and advertising clauses would be dynamic linking
>
> Ah ok. Well remember that we will be getting dynamic linking in future
> and the solution at the moment with static linking is to distribute
> static libraries to allow the user to relink. This allows closed source
> apps and complies with the LGPL.

Remember than Yhc and Hugs both don't link the code together, so you
can have more freedom with licenses. Of course, distributing your
closed source app under Hugs isn't that sensible...

Thanks

Neil