[Haskell-cafe] Using stringize and string concatenation in ghc preprocessing

Richard A. O'Keefe ok at cs.otago.ac.nz
Tue Jan 24 23:05:31 UTC 2017



On 25/01/17 2:44 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> I note that a company I worked for refused to have any GPL software
>> on their machines, even GCC, due to legal advice.  That was a couple
>> of revisions of the GPL ago, but some scars last.
>
> By "some scars last", do you mean "I'll stay away from that company"?

No, of course not.  The key point was that we were a small company
and would not have survived a law suit, win or lose.  That company
no longer exists, in any case.  The venture capitalists whose
lawyers' advice we followed do exist, but I no longer work for a
startup.


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