[GHC] #14331: Overzealous free-floating kind check causes deriving clause to be rejected

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#14331: Overzealous free-floating kind check causes deriving clause to be rejected
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        Reporter:  RyanGlScott       |                Owner:  (none)
            Type:  bug               |               Status:  merge
        Priority:  normal            |            Milestone:  8.2.2
       Component:  Compiler (Type    |              Version:  8.2.1
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      Resolution:                    |             Keywords:  deriving
Operating System:  Unknown/Multiple  |         Architecture:
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 Type of failure:  GHC rejects       |            Test Case:
  valid program                      |  deriving/should_compile/T14331
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Comment (by goldfire):

 I'm not convinced by comment:17, as I consider `deriving` clauses to be
 more separate from the definition. My reasoning is that we do unification
 for deriving. Thus, the kind `k2` of `a` will be unified with the newly-
 quantified kind `k`, leading to an accepted definition.

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Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/14331#comment:18>
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