On 12 December 2012 12:57, Nicolas Trangez <nico...@incubaid.com> wrote: > Note: IANAL > > On Tue, 2012-12-11 at 17:45 -0800, David Thomas wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Brandon Allbery <allber...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >> > (Oddly enough, GPL is not the only open source license.) >> >> There was no implication to the contrary. It was stated that BSD is a >> *weaker* license - this is true in the sense that it has fewer requirements >> (in particular, no copyleft) - and that "strong copyleft" licenses such as >> the GPL should be preferred as they do more to bolster the free software >> community. You can disagree with this claim (there are arguments both ways >> - delving into them is not my point here) but please try not to bring in >> straw men. > > Actually the library is made available under the LGPL-3 license, > according to its README, not the GPL (although the latter is implicit, > of course). > > In the Haskell world this does have a different effect compared to when > one uses the LGPL for, say, a C library though, since (at least for now) > GHC uses/defaults to static linking, which IIRC (though IANAL) turns the > LGPL into GPL, so this has a severe impact for application authors. This > might be something people aren't aware of when releasing Haskell > libraries using the LGPL. > > I tend to use the LGPL myself for most library-style projects, and do so > as well for Haskell code (although I'm aware of the drawbacks), but I'm > perfectly fine with people linking the libs statically as long as they > comply to the license "as if they were using dynamic loading". > > If anyone knows some standard license which boils down to "obligations > like LGPL but OK for static linking as well", please let me know.
I too would like such a license; however, the closest I've seen is LGPL + linking exception (which I believe is the license Malcolm Wallace uses for the cpphs library, though not the executable). > > Nicolas > > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com http://IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe