[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:  new
        Priority:  normal            |            Milestone:  8.4.1
       Component:  Compiler (Type    |              Version:  8.2.1
  checker)                           |
      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 RyanGlScott):

 I'm not sure how this is at odds? The example from #11732 is:

 {{{#!hs
 data Proxy k (a :: k) = ProxyCon deriving Generic1
 }}}

 Here, we are unifying a kind variable //from the datatype// with `Type`,
 which is acceptable, instead of a kind variable from the class (as is the
 case in comment:51), which should be an error. Or am I missing something?

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