John,
Have you carefully investigated the OpenSSL license? We in Debian
have
had repeated problems since the OpenSSL license is, as written,
incompatible with the GPL (even linking to OpenSSL is incompatible
with
the GPL). I would hate to have a situation where all GHC-compiled
programs can't be under the GPL.
I have been discussing this very issue with several people in this
list. At first I thought it was a peripheral issue because I had not
carefully reviewed the GPL license until Florian Weimer pointed out
what the problem was. By that time I had already decided to work
with another replacement library--I have not yet decided which
because I am still testing things out--based on good arguments other
people gave for not subjecting users to OpenSSL's advertising
clause. The libraries I am working with are either public domain or
BSD licenses. Sorry to scare you.
Best regards,
Peter
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