RE: LGPL and static linking of libgmp

2002-05-23 Thread Simon Marlow
> I just re-read the GNU Lesser General Public License today - and I > discovered that it places some utterly strange (IMHO) restrictions on > executables statically linked with LGPLed libraries. > Unfortunately, GHC for Windows produces such executables by linking > in libgmp statically. Dynam

LGPL and static linking of libgmp

2002-05-22 Thread Wolfgang Thaller
I just re-read the GNU Lesser General Public License today - and I discovered that it places some utterly strange (IMHO) restrictions on executables statically linked with LGPLed libraries. Unfortunately, GHC for Windows produces such executables by linking in libgmp statically. Dynamically lin