On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 10:17:03AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
Manuel writes:
I don't think that it is a good idea to specify a license. For example, I am convinced that the (L)GPL is the better licence for the community. Incidentally, the GPL is also the license of one of the most successful free software projects ever - Linux - which is certainly also one of the, if not *the* commercially most successful free software project. So, I don't buy this GPL is bad for companies propaganda.
It's not propaganda. The fact is if any of the standard libraries use the LGPL, then some people will be prevented from using them.
If there is an LGPLed library then you can write a new version which matches the spec and release it under the BSD license if you wish. Then in a similar way to how the implementation of a library you have may use GHC extensions (say) you could use an implementation with a BSD license. I would suggest that the specs be public domain and the compilers can chose to ship whatever version they think best. Ian