[Haskell-cafe] LGPL and Haskell

[Herbert Valerio Riedel]

Alfredo Di Napoli <alfredo.dinapoli at gmail.com> writes:

> Let me just chime in to give my 2 cents; I quote Micheal 100%; if we want
> to push Haskell out of the academic/open source world to the "real world",
> well, GPL is not the way to go, due to its viral nature.

just to throw in a different argument: there's also the concept of
dual-licensing[1,2] to accomodate both the F/OSS users as well as the
commercial users...

cheers,
  hvr

 [1]: http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/38172.html
 [2]: http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/duallicence2