Malcolm Wallace wrote:
"Brian Hulley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
http://judy.sf.net
I wonder if the authors of the library could be persuaded to make it
available under an Open Source license, because currently it is under
the very limiting restrictions imposed by LGPL...
You have a very non-standard definition of "Open Source", if the GPL
and LGPL do not fit in, since those are classic Free Software
licences! The Google SoC rules insist that all work produced under
their programme be Open Source according to the OSI definition at
http://www.opensource.org/
(ie incomaptible with commercial
development and the "normal" Haskell library license)
I believe you are wrong. Both the GPL and the LGPL (more so the
latter) are perfectly compatible with commercial development.
Specifically, the GPL and BSD3 (as used by ghc) licences are
compatible, in the sense that you can freely combine BSD3 code with
GPL code. Plenty of people make money from closed-source projects
that include LGPL'd components.
If what you really mean by "open source" is the ability to take code
and into make non-open modifications to it (as BSD permits), then
that is far more demanding than what most people mean by the term.
Well the problem with LGPL afaiu is that if you statically link your code to
it your are required to make your own source code available.
If HsJudy would have a BSD licence but only the C Judy component had the
LGPL licence, a possible solution for me afaiu would be to put the C Judy
code into a DLL. This depends though on HsJudy itself being BSD (or
something which allows you to statically link to it without having to
disclose the source for the program you're statically linking to).
I don't think (I may be wrong) that different bits of Haskell code (under
GHC at least) can currently coexist happily in DLLs.
Anyway I hope I didn't sound negative. I think it will be *great* to have
mutable collection types in Haskell - I just get worried if something so
important should have a restrictive licence attached.
Good luck with the project,
Brian.
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