p.tanski@gmail.com wrote:
GHC Task Ticket # 601 suggests replacing GMP with OpenSSL's Bignum library, BN. I have two questions concerning this:
From the ticket, this looks very scary:
but its LGPL license is problematic for users of GHC (it prohibits static linking of GHC-compiled programs, for example). Does this mean I can't distribute my Haskell app as a commercial application? I certainly don't want to distribute source code and I've got no idea how to compile a Haskell app other than using ghc --make, which creates a single exe ie with static linkage. If I only use Int's (not Integer's) in my code, is there a way to get rid of GMP so that I won't have an impossible licencing problem when trying to distribute my application binary? If not, then it would seem absolutely vital to get rid of GMP as soon as possible or else try to persuade the authors to add the usual static linking exception to their LGPL licence for it. Thanks, Brian. -- Logic empowers us and Love gives us purpose. Yet still phantoms restless for eras long past, congealed in the present in unthought forms, strive mightily unseen to destroy us. http://www.metamilk.com