[Haskell-cafe] Why Not Haskell?

[Henning Thielemann]

On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Brian Hulley wrote:

> > 4) Haskell is open source and licensing restrictions forbid commercial
> > applications. I haven't seen any such restrictions, but is this a
> > problem for the standard modules?
> 
> You can discover the licensing situation by downloading the GHC source (or
> source for whatever distro you're using) and looking in the directories for
> each package. For example the base package uses a BSD-style licence and HaXml
> uses LGPL with the exception to allow static linking.

A license which requires programmers to disclose their sources shouldn't
be a problem for a commercial application. Which C hacker would or could
steal code from it? :-)