Hello, On 2015-05-08 at 11:28:08 +0200, Niklas Larsson wrote:
If the intention is to use cpphs as a library, won't the license affect every program built with the GHC API? That seems to be a high price to pay.
Yes, every program linking the `ghc` package would be affected by LGPL+SLE albeit in a contained way, as it's mentioned on the Wiki page: | - As a practical consequence of the //LGPL with static-linking-exception// | (LGPL+SLE), **if no modifications are made to the `cpphs`-parts** | (i.e. the LGPL+SLE covered modules) of the GHC code-base, | **then there is no requirement to ship (or make available) any source code** | together with the binaries, even if other parts of the GHC code-base | were modified. However, don't forget we already have this issue w/ integer-gmp, and with that the LGPL is in full effect (i.e. w/o a static-linkage-exception!) In that context, the suggestion was made[1] to handle the cpphs-code like the GMP code, i.e. allow a compile-time configuration in the GHC build-system to build a cpphs-free (and/or GMP-free) GHC for those parties that need to avoid any LGPL-ish code whatsoever in their toolchain. Would that address this concern? [1]: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/351pur/rfc_native_xcpp_for_ghc_prop...