Isaac Dupree wrote:
GHC is in no legal trouble whatsoever... only if proprietary Haskell code uses the readline library and doesn't switch to using the editline backend.
Agreed. I didn't mean that GHC itself was ever in any legal trouble. But as a compiler, it must be possible for users to compile with it without getting into legal trouble.
On Linux here I have readline installed and not editline currently, so it seems silly to require installing editline by default ("default" meaning "if I don't want to, I have to figure out the right configure flag to give to allow readline to be used"). It makes sense to use editline by default for Mac and Windows builds though, where readline isn't native, I guess. Statically linking to editline for binary builds would be alright (not exporting any readline to ghc-compiled programs by default?). How is "Search for editline first; if not found, try to use readline"?
Yes, I also have a Debian box, and I agree. Regards, Yitz