On 05/19/2015 08:26 AM, Bardur Arantsson wrote:
On 05/19/2015 07:31 AM, Carter Schonwald wrote:
I imagine your ghc build uses gcc to invoke the system assembler and linker on your Linux servers, :-) and that's gplv3!
That is of no consequence licensing-wise since those are
a) separate programs/executables, thus "derived work" doesn't enter into it at any level, except...
b) if the output contains bits of of the programs themselves, but e.g. gcc (and one assumes the linker, etc.) have specific licensing exemptions for the output.
(And this *is* something that you can quickly explain to the lawyerly types.)
Oh, and it's also pretty well-established at this point, though I'm not aware of any specific cases that have gone to the courts.