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

On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 14:39 -0700, Don Stewart wrote:

The big problem with the LGPL and Haskell is static linking. We can't use anything we wish to ship commercially that relies on LGPLd-statically linked-and-inlined Haskell code at the moment.

So if you use LGPL for your Haskell libraries, all of which are currently statically linked and non-replaceable at runtime, it is unlikely any commercial Haskell house can use the code.

Note that this *isn't* the case for C libraries, which are dynamically linked, like libgmp, which is just fine.

Yet another reason for getting dynamic linking / shared libs for Haskell packages working reliably on all platforms. Duncan