Well in this case I'd be really interested in seeing how the can tell the difference, be it only from a simple complexity theoretic point of view ! I understand they may look for common patterns in their compiler code to tell the difference between GHC's generated code and theirs, but pretending they can do it in this case only shows that Apple lawyers never communicate with the engineers.



El 26/05/2010, a las 15:32, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH escribió:

On May 26, 2010, at 10:17 , Pierre-Etienne Meunier wrote:
Anyway, does the license imply that one can't compile GHC's core language and RTS into objective-c, then compile it with their "so great" software ?

As I read it, yes; it says that the calls to their APIs must *originate* from permitted languages, and specifically prohibits using those languages via translation layers.

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