On Wed, 1 Oct 2008, Don Stewart wrote:
malcolm.wallace:
Just a small nuance to what Don wrote:
so opinion seems to be that LGPL licensed *Haskell libaries* are unsuitable for any projects you want to ship commercially, without source code.
Unless you use a different compiler.
Malcolm "keeping the dream of multiple implementations alive"
And keep dividing our compiler teams' efforts, while single-implementation languages conquer :)
Don "thinking that compiler developer fragmentation doesn't help now the language research is 'done'"
I'm not at all sure I agree with you there. That said, licensing's a particularly poor reason for a separate implementation. -- flippa@flippac.org 'In Ankh-Morpork even the shit have a street to itself... Truly this is a land of opportunity.' - Detritus, Men at Arms