Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] gmp license == no commercial/closed source haskell software ??

2008-12-03 Thread Jason Dusek
Bulat Ziganshin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Don wrote: > > Lionel wrote: > > > From my understanding, the gmp is GPL, GHC statically > > > links it on windows. > > > > GMP is *LGPL*. > > > > Supporting this is trivial with a dynamically linked / DLL > > libgmp. > > the whole problem is that it lin

Re: [Haskell-cafe] gmp license == no commercial/closed source haskell software ??

2008-12-03 Thread Alex Sandro Queiroz e Silva
Hallo, Don Stewart wrote: > > Supporting this is trivial with a dynamically linked / DLL libgmp. With > a statically linked one, it is also possible, since the API calls to > libgmp are specified. > Is it also possible? How? > This shouldn't prevent commercial use -- lots of other compani

Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] gmp license == no commercial/closed source haskell software ??

2008-12-03 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Don, Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 5:36:57 PM, you wrote: >> From my understanding, the gmp is GPL, GHC statically links it on windows. > GMP is *LGPL*. > Supporting this is trivial with a dynamically linked / DLL libgmp. the whole problem is that it links in statically, that reduces lice

Re: [Haskell-cafe] gmp license == no commercial/closed source haskell software ??

2008-12-03 Thread Jonathan Cast
On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 15:36 +0100, Lionel Barret De Nazaris wrote: > I've just discovered the GMP license problem. (see > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/ReplacingGMPNotes) > > From my understanding, the gmp is GPL, GHC statically links it on > windows. Lesser GPL: http://www.gnu.org/c

Re: [Haskell-cafe] gmp license == no commercial/closed source haskell software ??

2008-12-03 Thread Don Stewart
lionel: > I've just discovered the GMP license problem. (see > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/ReplacingGMPNotes) > > From my understanding, the gmp is GPL, GHC statically links it on windows. > As a consequence, any program compiled using GHC must be distributed > under a GPL compatibl

[Haskell-cafe] gmp license == no commercial/closed source haskell software ??

2008-12-03 Thread Lionel Barret De Nazaris
I've just discovered the GMP license problem. (see http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/ReplacingGMPNotes) From my understanding, the gmp is GPL, GHC statically links it on windows. As a consequence, any program compiled using GHC must be distributed under a GPL compatible license. In the