[Haskell-cafe] GPL answers from the SFLC (WAS: Re: ANN: hakyll-0.1)

Matthias Kilian kili at outback.escape.de
Thu Mar 4 16:56:48 EST 2010


On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 11:34:24AM -0600, Tom Tobin wrote:
> [...] The SFLC holds that a
> library that depends on a GPL'd library must in turn be GPL'd, even if
> the library is only distributed as source and not in binary form.

Was this a general statement or specific to the fact that (at least
GHC) is doing heavy inlining?

Anyway, I think the SFLC is the wrong institution to ask, since
they're biased.

Ciao,
	Kili


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