[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: tie-knot library

[Alexander Solla]

As a matter of fact, BSD is far more popular on the desktop than GPL.  And
has a huge share of the mobile market.  Witness: OS X, iOS.

And none of this has anything to do with Haskell.  Petr can release *his*
code with any license he wants.  Some licenses fit into *this* ecosystem
better than others.  Suggestions have been made and we can all move on.


On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 6:03 PM, David Thomas <davidleothomas at gmail.com>wrote:

> Right.  Like, if Linus hadn't bogged down the Linux kernel with the GPL
> license, it might have wound up as popular as BSD!
>
> Both dynamics go on, and the question is which is more likely to dominate
> in a given case (and cumulatively).
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Jonathan Fischer Friberg <
> odyssomay at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 2:26 AM, Ramana Kumar <Ramana.Kumar at cl.cam.ac.uk>wrote:
>>
>>> Using the GPL (or a strong copyleft free license) strengthens the free
>>> software community of which I thought the Haskell community is a part (or
>>> at least intersects substantially).
>>>
>>
>> I don't think it strengthens the community. If someone wants to make a
>> change a library,
>> but not release the source, they cannot do that with GPL.
>> The idea behind GPL is that then, the change is forced to be released -
>> which would, as you say, strengthen the community.
>> However, I think what would happen instead is that the person would
>> simply not use the library in the first place.
>>
>> So in short: GPL does not make people become a part of the community - it
>> pushes them away.
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
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