Re: [Haskell-cafe] LGPL libraries

2007-03-07 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 10:31 +0100, Udo Stenzel wrote: Neil Mitchell wrote: As others have said though, I wouldn't worry overly about it. The whole concept of static linking being wrong, but dynamic linking being fine, when you can flip between the modes just by changing compiler, is just

Re: [Haskell-cafe] LGPL libraries

2007-03-07 Thread Michael T. Richter
On Wed, 2007-07-03 at 11:11 +, Duncan Coutts wrote: Once GHC supports dynamic linking on linux windows (as it does currently on OSX) I think people will stop worrying/complaining. About this issue. ;) -- Michael T. Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Disclaimer: Any people who think that

Re: [Haskell-cafe] LGPL libraries

2007-03-07 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 03:00 +, Neil Mitchell wrote: The whole concept of static linking being wrong, but dynamic linking being fine, when you can flip between the modes just by changing compiler, is just silly. You don't infringe (or uninfringe) copyright with a command line flag. Just

Re: [Haskell-cafe] LGPL libraries

2007-03-06 Thread Ketil Malde
Kirsten Chevalier wrote: I am not a lawyer, but there are a couple of important points getting missed in this thread: [...] That's just silly isn't a defense. [...] and thus trust me, we're not going to sue you isn't the answer they're looking for, even if it's a completely accurate

Re: [Haskell-cafe] LGPL libraries

2007-03-06 Thread Udo Stenzel
Neil Mitchell wrote: As others have said though, I wouldn't worry overly about it. The whole concept of static linking being wrong, but dynamic linking being fine, when you can flip between the modes just by changing compiler, is just silly. You don't infringe (or uninfringe) copyright with a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] LGPL libraries

2007-03-05 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 14:07 -0300, Alex Queiroz wrote: Hallo, Gtk2Hs and HDBC are both LGPL licensed, but aren't they always static linked? Is there a way to use them in closed-source programs? Well let me put it this way: I'm not going to sue you and I doubt any of the other

Re: [Haskell-cafe] LGPL libraries

2007-03-05 Thread Alex Queiroz
Hallo, On 3/5/07, Duncan Coutts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you're really worried (but I wouldn't be) then do recall that the static linking thing only requires that the end user be able to relink with a different version that preserves the same ABI. So you don't have to provide source for

Re: [Haskell-cafe] LGPL libraries

2007-03-05 Thread Neil Mitchell
Hi Gtk2Hs and HDBC are both LGPL licensed, but aren't they always static linked? Is there a way to use them in closed-source programs? If you are concerned about static linking, Yhc may offer a solution, since it produces bytecode files, which don't statically link to anything. Of

Re: [Haskell-cafe] LGPL libraries

2007-03-05 Thread Kirsten Chevalier
On 3/5/07, Neil Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As others have said though, I wouldn't worry overly about it. The whole concept of static linking being wrong, but dynamic linking being fine, when you can flip between the modes just by changing compiler, is just silly. You don't infringe (or

Re: [Haskell-cafe] LGPL libraries

2007-03-05 Thread brad clawsie
(3) The GPL has never been tested in court http://www.fsf.org/news/wallace-vs-fsf note that during this thread there was a note from a contributor to promise to not sue a potentially infriging use. you should be careful of such promises, particularly considering that some fsf licenses include

Re: [Haskell-cafe] LGPL libraries

2007-03-05 Thread Alec Berryman
brad clawsie on 2007-03-05 20:30:24 -0800: (3) The GPL has never been tested in court http://www.fsf.org/news/wallace-vs-fsf note that during this thread there was a note from a contributor to promise to not sue a potentially infriging use. you should be careful of such promises,