Malcolm Wallace wrote:
Interesting. I'm not completely clear, when you say that your company distributes binaries to third-parties: do you distribute ghc itself? Or just the product that has been built by ghc?
You're right. We only distribute binaries built by GHC. So whatever doesn't make it into the runtime is not a problem for us at the moment. But as Herbert pointed out, it may not be so simple for everyone. There is GHC API ; there are EDSLs; etc. Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:
I'm surprised there's still such resistance given the ubiquity of Linux distributions made up of numerous (L)GPLed components, IMHO it's kinda like tilting at windmills...
A few years ago, people would have said that using open source in industry at all was like tilting at windmills. I'm very happy that's not the case anymore. Some companies - including some big ones - use GPL'ed code and thumb their noses at the license. I hope that GHC will support use in industry by companies that do respect open source licenses.