On 13 December 2012 08:09, Michael Snoyman <[email protected]> wrote:
> To take this out of the academic realm and into the real-life realm: I've > actually done projects for companies which have corporate policies > disallowing the usage of any copyleft licenses in their toolset. My use > case was a web application, which would not have been affected by a GPL > library usage since we were not distributing binaries. Nonetheless, those > clients would not have allowed usage of any such libraries. You can argue > whether or not this is a good decision on their part, but I don't think the > companies I interacted with were unique in this regard. > > So anyone who's considering selling Haskell-based services to companies > could very well be in a situation where any (L)GPL libraries are > non-starters, regardless of actual legal concerns. > Presumably you are talking about companies who want to distribute programs (a very small minority of companies, I would think)?
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