bindist for Intel MacOS X 10.4 (Tiger) with static libs

[Manuel M T Chakravarty]

Thorkil Naur:
> Hello,
>
> On Tuesday 08 January 2008 15:07, Christian Maeder wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've succeeded in building a binary distribution that uses static
>> libraries for gmp and readline. libreadline.a, libncurses.a and  
>> libgmp.a
>> with corresponding header files are included. (For license issues ask
>> someone else.)
>
> On http://gmplib.org/ we find:
>
> "GMP is distributed under the GNU LGPL. This license makes the  
> library free to
> use, share, and improve, and allows you to pass on the result. The  
> license
> gives freedoms, but also sets firm restrictions on the use with non- 
> free
> programs."
>
> I have not attempted to check whether your distribution fulfills the
> requirements of the LGPL.

It does fullfil them.  The source code of all components of the system  
is available enabling users to build the same software with a  
different version of GMP.  That's all that the LGPL requires of  
software linked against a LGPL library.
>
> Further, on http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html:
>
> "Readline is free software, distributed under the terms of the GNU  
> General
> Public License, version 2. This means that if you want to use  
> Readline in a
> program that you release or distribute to anyone, the program must  
> be free
> software and have a GPL-compatible license."
>
> For your distribution to adhere to this, it appears to require GHC  
> to have a
> GPL-compatible license. I don't believe it does.

It does.  GHC's codebase is a mix of BSD3, LGLP, and GPL.  They are  
perfectly compatible.  See <http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/index_html 
 >.

Manuel