[Haskell-cafe] Hackage suggestion: Gather the list of the licenses of all dependencies of a package

[Brandon Allbery]

On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Malcolm Wallace <malcolm.wallace at me.com>wrote:

> This might a good time to remind everyone that every single program
> compiled by a standard GHC is linked against an LGPL library (the Gnu
> multi-precision integer library) - unless you take care first to build your
> own
>

This is less relevant though, because gmp is not a Haskell library so
linking against it doesn't pull significant chunks of its source code into
your program.  Indeed, many GHC distributions dynamic-link against it,
minimizing the legal concerns; and IIRC the gmp license explicitly allows
the use GHC makes of it as long as the gmp symbols are not re-exported as
part of its API (which they aren't).

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