Re: [Haskell-cafe] LGPL and Haskell

On 12/13/12 9:30 AM, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:

Alfredo Di Napoli writes:

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Let me just chime in to give my 2 cents; I quote Micheal 100%; if we want to push Haskell out of the academic/open source world to the "real world", well, GPL is not the way to go, due to its viral nature.

just to throw in a different argument: there's also the concept of dual-licensing[1,2] to accomodate both the F/OSS users as well as the commercial users...

I'm a big fan of dual-licensing. It's an underutilized tactic for overcoming the competing forces of commercial success and F/OSS success. Moreover, in my experience, those companies which refuse to have anything to do with the GPL tend to be more than willing to pay for a corporate license. Just remember: money isn't evil, it's proprietarism that's evil. -- Live well, ~wren