[Haskell-cafe] Re: ANNOUNCE: iteratee-compress 0.1.1

[wren ng thornton]

On 10/24/10 8:14 PM, Felipe Lessa wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Maciej Piechotka<uzytkownik2 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Currently I thought only about bzip2/gzip. Probably .xz support would
>> follow if any.
>>
>> LZO, as you said, is on GPL-2. While I have no problems with GPL-2 some
>> potential users may (Haskell tend to be BSD3 community). Does anyone
>> knows if conditional compilation solves problem? In my interpretation of
>> GPL-2 yes but I'm not sure.
>
> Conditional compilation is tricky for licensing purposes, I think.
> But a 'iteratee-compress-lzo' or 'iteratee-compress-gpl' package would
> definitely avoid such issues.

I was going to suggest iteratee-compress-gpl...

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