[Haskell-cafe] Re: Hmm, what license to use?

Don Stewart dons at galois.com
Wed Oct 1 16:00:04 EDT 2008


malcolm.wallace:
> Just a small nuance to what Don wrote:
> 
> >   * Haskell libraries are always statically linked and agressively
> >     inlined,
> 
> But only for GHC (and jhc?).
> 
> >             so opinion seems to be that LGPL licensed *Haskell
> >     libaries* are unsuitable for any projects you want to ship
> >     commercially, without source code.
> 
> Unless you use a different compiler.
> 
>     Malcolm "keeping the dream of multiple implementations alive"  

And keep dividing our compiler teams' efforts, while
single-implementation languages conquer :)

    Don "thinking that compiler developer fragmentation doesn't help now the language research is 'done'" 


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