On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 14:39 -0700, Don Stewart wrote: > The big problem with the LGPL and Haskell is static linking. We can't > use anything we wish to ship commercially that relies on > LGPLd-statically linked-and-inlined Haskell code at the moment. > > So if you use LGPL for your Haskell libraries, all of which are > currently statically linked and non-replaceable at runtime, it is > unlikely any commercial Haskell house can use the code. > > Note that this *isn't* the case for C libraries, which are dynamically > linked, like libgmp, which is just fine.
Yet another reason for getting dynamic linking / shared libs for Haskell packages working reliably on all platforms. Duncan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
