On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Brian Hulley wrote: > > 4) Haskell is open source and licensing restrictions forbid commercial > > applications. I haven't seen any such restrictions, but is this a > > problem for the standard modules? > > You can discover the licensing situation by downloading the GHC source (or > source for whatever distro you're using) and looking in the directories for > each package. For example the base package uses a BSD-style licence and HaXml > uses LGPL with the exception to allow static linking.
A license which requires programmers to disclose their sources shouldn't be a problem for a commercial application. Which C hacker would or could steal code from it? :-) _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe