John,

Have you carefully investigated the OpenSSL license? We in Debian have had repeated problems since the OpenSSL license is, as written, incompatible with the GPL (even linking to OpenSSL is incompatible with the GPL). I would hate to have a situation where all GHC-compiled programs can't be under the GPL.

I have been discussing this very issue with several people in this list. At first I thought it was a peripheral issue because I had not carefully reviewed the GPL license until Florian Weimer pointed out what the problem was. By that time I had already decided to work with another replacement library--I have not yet decided which because I am still testing things out--based on good arguments other people gave for not subjecting users to OpenSSL's advertising clause. The libraries I am working with are either public domain or BSD licenses. Sorry to scare you. Best regards, Peter