Replacement for GMP as Bignum: ARPREC? Haskell?; OS-X and OpenSSL

[Brian Hulley]

p.tanski at gmail.com wrote:
> GHC Task Ticket # 601 suggests replacing GMP with OpenSSL's Bignum
> library, BN. I have two questions concerning this:

>From the ticket, this looks very scary:

          but its LGPL license is problematic for users of GHC
         (it prohibits static linking of GHC-compiled programs, for 
example).

Does this mean I can't distribute my Haskell app as a commercial 
application? I certainly don't want to distribute source code and I've got 
no idea how to compile a Haskell app other than using ghc --make, which 
creates a single exe ie with static linkage.

If I only use Int's (not Integer's) in my code, is there a way to get rid of 
GMP so that I won't have an impossible licencing problem when trying to 
distribute my application binary? If not, then it would seem absolutely 
vital to get rid of GMP as soon as possible or else try to persuade the 
authors to add the usual static linking exception to their LGPL licence for 
it.

Thanks, Brian.

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