possible readline license problem with ghc and -package util

[Sven Moritz Hallberg]

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On Wednesday 12. June 2002 10:12, Manuel M. T. Chakravarty wrote:
> Knowing the GHC developers for quite a while (and having had
> BSD versus GPL discussions with them before), my answer
> would be that they are perfectly trustworthy, but suffer
> from the common "BSD is more free than GPL" misconception[1].
> Otherwise, they are perfectly nice guys (even if they have a
> @microsoft.com address ;-)

I see the people being very nice. But there is the question whether MS wo=
uld=20
draw them away from GHC if it desides to go full-scale with something bas=
ed=20
on GHC. That would surely hit GHC hard. If they could just say, no, we're=
=20
here to stay, MS is paying us, but they just want to use the compiler we=20
make, not own it, I'd be perfectly fine.


Sven Moritz
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