Hello, On Thursday 17 January 2008 05:24, Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote: > Thorkil Naur: > > Hello, > > > > On Tuesday 08 January 2008 15:07, Christian Maeder wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I've succeeded in building a binary distribution that uses static > >> libraries for gmp and readline. libreadline.a, libncurses.a and > >> libgmp.a > >> with corresponding header files are included. (For license issues ask > >> someone else.) > > > > On http://gmplib.org/ we find: > > > > "GMP is distributed under the GNU LGPL. This license makes the > > library free to > > use, share, and improve, and allows you to pass on the result. The > > license > > gives freedoms, but also sets firm restrictions on the use with non- > > free > > programs." > > > > I have not attempted to check whether your distribution fulfills the > > requirements of the LGPL. > > It does fullfil them. The source code of all components of the system > is available enabling users to build the same software with a > different version of GMP. That's all that the LGPL requires of > software linked against a LGPL library. > > > > Further, on http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html: > > > > "Readline is free software, distributed under the terms of the GNU > > General > > Public License, version 2. This means that if you want to use > > Readline in a > > program that you release or distribute to anyone, the program must > > be free > > software and have a GPL-compatible license." > > > > For your distribution to adhere to this, it appears to require GHC > > to have a > > GPL-compatible license.
Sorry, my use of the term "GPL-compatible" here is wrong. What I should have written was that "it appears to require GHC to be distributed under the GPL". > > I don't believe it does. > > It does. GHC's codebase is a mix of BSD3, LGLP, and GPL. They are > perfectly compatible. See <http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/index_html > >. > > Manuel > Best regards Thorkil _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
