4 Aug
2006
4 Aug
'06
3:43 p.m.
On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Brian Hulley wrote:
4) Haskell is open source and licensing restrictions forbid commercial applications. I haven't seen any such restrictions, but is this a problem for the standard modules?
You can discover the licensing situation by downloading the GHC source (or source for whatever distro you're using) and looking in the directories for each package. For example the base package uses a BSD-style licence and HaXml uses LGPL with the exception to allow static linking.
A license which requires programmers to disclose their sources shouldn't be a problem for a commercial application. Which C hacker would or could steal code from it? :-)