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

Joe Hillenbrand joehillen at gmail.com
Fri Jan 27 05:13:28 UTC 2017


All these companies that have lawyers that say "avoid GPL" are using
Linux, gcc, Emacs, and many other GPL tools, even if they don't
realize it, including Apple and Microsoft. This whole argument is
dangerous FUD.

On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 3:25 PM, Stefan Monnier
<monnier at iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>>> Reality check: Has anyone ever heard of a company sued because they
>>> use a GPL'd tool?  Ever?  How 'bout in your wildest dream, maybe?
>> I can list a few, mostly involving Linux.
>
> Notice I said "use a GPL'd tool".  The cases such as VMware or
> Linksys/Cisco are quite different from using GHC for development.
>
>
>         Stefan
>
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