Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Hmm, what license to use?

brianchina60221:

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:54 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:

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That still leaves anyone free to use LGPL if they want to, but please don't assume that it allows commercial use by all potential users.

It *does* allow commercial use. Your example just shows that some people may decide not to take advantage of it, based not on problematic restrictions but just on paranoia.

I was confused and worried about this subject lately, too; at some point in the future, I may want to ship closed-source commercial software that uses various LGPL libraries. But it doesn't seem to be as big a problem as I imagined. My understanding is that I can satisfy the requirements of the LGPL by dynamically linking, and that's already happening. Is there something else to worry about? I'd be in violation if I shipped something statically linked, but cabal doesn't seem inclined to do that by default.

And, importantly, the vast, vast majority of Haskell code is BSD licensed, and the licenses are prominently displayed. -- Don