<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Colin Adams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:colinpauladams@gmail.com" target="_blank">colinpauladams@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>On 13 December 2012 08:09, Michael Snoyman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael@snoyman.com" target="_blank">michael@snoyman.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">To take this out of the academic realm and into the real-life realm: I've actually done projects for companies which have corporate policies disallowing the usage of any copyleft licenses in their toolset. My use case was a web application, which would not have been affected by a GPL library usage since we were not distributing binaries. Nonetheless, those clients would not have allowed usage of any such libraries. You can argue whether or not this is a good decision on their part, but I don't think the companies I interacted with were unique in this regard.<div>
<br></div><div>So anyone who's considering selling Haskell-based services to companies could very well be in a situation where any (L)GPL libraries are non-starters, regardless of actual legal concerns.</div></div></blockquote>
<div><br></div></div><div>Presumably you are talking about companies who want to distribute programs (a very small minority of companies, I would think)? </div></div>
</blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">No, read my use case again. I was creating a web application for a company. The company was not going to distribute my code in any way to their clients. Nonetheless, the company had a corporate policy to not use *any* copyleft licenses, and therefore I was unable to use a library such as Pandoc. (I believe this policy affected me at two separate companies, but I don't remember all the details tbh.)</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I also don't think that distributing programs is as small a market as you think, and should also be something we support for commercial users of Haskell.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Michael</div>
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