Hello, Please post a link that indicates whether the GHC Haskell Compiler license is compatible with the GPL. I haven't been able to find anything online regarding compatibility. I would be interested in any license issues before learning more about this compiler.
The license appears to allow modifications and re-distribution in binary form only, which seems incompatible with the GPL: https://www.haskell.org/ghc/license.html -Stan On 10/11/23 7:38 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi! > > There is a regression in the GHC Haskell Compiler [1] that I have been > investigating for several days. While I have been able to identify the > commit that introduced the regression, I have not been able to fix > that issue since I don't have the necessary Haskell knowledge to be able > to work on GHC. > > Since the broken GHC compiler currently blocks a lot of packages on 32-bit > PowerPC and the upstream developers don't seem to be too motivated at the > moment to fix the bug, I was wondering whether people here would be willing > to throw in some money to create a bounty on that particular bug to pay > a Haskell developer to fix it. > > I have run such campaigns successfully in the past for GCC such as [2] and > [3] (links currently 404 for me), so I think that should work for GHC, too. > > I don't think we need to collect a lot of money, a few hundred dollars should > probably be more than enough. We don't have to use Bountysource.com for what > is worth. Any other platform or donation system would be perfectly fine, too. > > Comments? Suggestions? > > Thanks, > Adrian > >> [1] https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/23969 >> [2] >> https://app.bountysource.com/issues/80706251-m68k-convert-the-backend-to-mode_cc-so-it-can-be-kept-in-future-releases >> [3] >> https://app.bountysource.com/issues/84630749-avr-convert-the-backend-to-mode_cc-so-it-can-be-kept-in-future-releases >
