Sven Panne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am not very radical about licenses, but a lot of distros are, so the
> problem still remains: cpphs' LGPL (why the initial "L" for a
> program, BTW?)
The library package is LGPL.
The executable that uses the library is GPL.
> is incompatible with Hugs' and GHC's BSD-like license,
> so no distribution will ever ship them as a unit (RPM etc.).
Really? The FSF makes it quite clear that the advertising-clause-free
BSD licence is compatible with the GPL. They also make it clear that
merely distributing things together in the same unit is perfectly fine,
and in no way causes licence cross-pollution. But I understand that
some people might not know this, and with 3rd-party licence
proliferation, it can be difficult to keep track of the allowable
combinations.
> I think that we remove this dependency and
> revert to C's cpp again for Hugs,
AIUI, the main reason for including cpphs with Hugs is that it is common
for a binary distribution of Hugs to be used on a platform (Windows)
with no C compiler available.
Regards,
Malcolm
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