[Haskell-cafe] LGPL and Haskell (Was: Re: ANNOUNCE: tie-knot library)

[Ramana Kumar]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 5:36 AM, Felipe Almeida Lessa <
felipe.lessa at gmail.com> wrote:

> A GPLed containers forces the library user to somehow get a way of
> complying to the license.
>

The language here needs some clarification: the GPL (or other free copyleft
license) only "forces" someone to do something under very particular
circumstances, which could be characterised as:
1. They are planning on distributing non-free software, and,
2. They haven't made a special agreement with the copyright holder.

I would hope that condition 1 does not hold for a large proportion of
library users.
Those users should not be scared away from copyleft.
Using it has the advantage of offering a reason to push those on the fence
about whether to make their software free.
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