On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 18:41 +0100, Brian Hulley wrote: > Hi, > I know this is a sensitive issue and I absolutely don't want to start > any kind of discussion about the merits or otherwise of LGPL, but I was > wondering if there are any plans to remove the GNU mp library from the > runtime so that it would be possible to distribute native executables > compiled with GHC without having to deal with the additional issues > raised by the current inclusion of this LGPL component in the runtime. > (Afaik everything else in ghc is under a BSD3 license.) > > It's less of an issue on Linux where libgmp is dynamically linked but > when thinking about using Haskell ghc for creating Windows apps it is > for me a real problem,
Sounds to me like the simlest solution for you would be if GHC could use a dynamically linked gmp.dll on Windows. That also sounds like much less work that replacing gmp completely. Has anyone tried this? Duncan _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users