Am Freitag, 26. September 2008 09:24 schrieb Magnus Therning:
Recently I received an email with a question regarding the licensing of a module I've written and uploaded to Hackage. I released it under LGPL. The sender wondered if I would consider re-licensing the code under BSD (or something similar) that would remove the need for users to provide linkable object files so that users can re-link programs against newer/modified versions of my library.
Since GHC does cross-package inlining, code of your library is directly included (not just linked) into code that uses the library. So I think that every code that uses your library will have to be released und the GPL or LGPL which is a very bad situation. People, don’t release Haskell libraries under the LGPL!
Now I have fairly strong feelings about freedom of code and I everything I release is either under GPL or LGPL.
Ah, the RMS prevarication. ;-) Honestly, copyleft gives the user *less* freedom because he can no longer choose a license for redistribution freely.
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Best wishes, Wolfgang