On 4 Aug 2009, at 23:05, Don Stewart wrote:
I would appreciate input from the HaXml and HDBC authors (our most popular LGPL-licensed Haskell libraries) about what they feel the licensing issues/constraints should be for the Haskell Platform.
Licensing clarity is important for users I think. But equally some users may desire to use LGPL libraries too. Hence my suggestion that there be a separate platform of free/LGPL code (and GPL tools), which can depend on the proprietary-friendly BSD-licensed platform, but not the other way round.
I've not yet seen anyone publish something on how to satisfy LGPL for Haskell libraries.
The static-linking exception is the commonest means of working around ghc's technical limitations here. The exception is part of wxHaskell's license (but not Gtk2hs's), and HaXml (+polyparse on which it depends) has the exception too. Regards, Malcolm