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

[Thorkil Naur]

Hello,

On Thursday 17 January 2008 05:24, Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote:
> 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. 

Sorry, my use of the term "GPL-compatible" here is wrong. What I should have 
written was that "it appears to require GHC to be distributed under the GPL".

> > 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
> 

Best regards
Thorkil