6 Jan
2005
6 Jan
'05
7:20 a.m.
"Simon Marlow"
There are already a couple of bits of (L)GPL under fptools: GMP and readline. GMP we'd like to replace because it is necessarily a part of every compiled Haskell program; readline isn't so important but it would be nice to have a BSD-licensed replacement.
Readline is GPL and GMP LGPL, aren't they? So GMP only restricts what you can do with modifications to that library (and thus only affects developers who want to release a modified GHC without source), while linking with readline will potentially affect regular users of GHC. Or? -kzm -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants