On 19 May 2015 at 08:26, Bardur Arantsson
I imagine your ghc build uses gcc to invoke the system assembler and
On 05/19/2015 07:31 AM, Carter Schonwald wrote: 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.)
Both conditions likewise hold true for cpphs-as-an-external-process-bundled-with-GHC. So any particular remaining concern there?