On 05/19/2015 08:26 AM, Bardur Arantsson wrote: > On 05/19/2015 07:31 AM, Carter Schonwald wrote: >> I imagine your ghc build uses gcc to invoke the system assembler and linker >> on your Linux servers, :-) and that's gplv3! > > That is of no consequence licensing-wise since those are > > a) separate programs/executables, thus "derived work" doesn't enter > into it at any level, except... > > b) if the output contains bits of of the programs themselves, but > e.g. gcc (and one assumes the linker, etc.) have specific > licensing exemptions for the output. > > (And this *is* something that you can quickly explain to the lawyerly > types.) >
Oh, and it's also pretty well-established at this point, though I'm not aware of any specific cases that have gone to the courts. _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
