Einar Karttunen wrote:
On 10.08 11:16, Peter Tanski wrote:
Paragraph 6 of the OpenSSL (1998-2005) license states that:
* 6. Redistributions of any form whatsoever must retain the following * acknowledgment: * "This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project * for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit (http://www.openssl.org/)".
All developers would have to do is include the acknowledgment stated above.
I think this is not bad for specific applications, but forcing this upon all code compiled by GHC would be bad. I think the compiler should not link applications by default to things that force license related things.
Most packages (including the base package) already force you to do license-related things when you distribute binaries: - Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. The OpenSSL license is no worse in this respect. Cheers, Simon