Re: Crowdfunding a small but important powerpc bugfix
Hello,
Please post a link that indicates whether the GHC Haskell Compiler
license is compatible with the GPL. I haven't been able to find anything
online regarding compatibility. I would be interested in any license
issues before learning more about this compiler.
The license appears to allow modifications and re-distribution in binary
form only, which seems incompatible with the GPL:
https://www.haskell.org/ghc/license.html
-Stan
On 10/11/23 7:38 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi!
>
> There is a regression in the GHC Haskell Compiler [1] that I have been
> investigating for several days. While I have been able to identify the
> commit that introduced the regression, I have not been able to fix
> that issue since I don't have the necessary Haskell knowledge to be able
> to work on GHC.
>
> Since the broken GHC compiler currently blocks a lot of packages on 32-bit
> PowerPC and the upstream developers don't seem to be too motivated at the
> moment to fix the bug, I was wondering whether people here would be willing
> to throw in some money to create a bounty on that particular bug to pay
> a Haskell developer to fix it.
>
> I have run such campaigns successfully in the past for GCC such as [2] and
> [3] (links currently 404 for me), so I think that should work for GHC, too.
>
> I don't think we need to collect a lot of money, a few hundred dollars should
> probably be more than enough. We don't have to use Bountysource.com for what
> is worth. Any other platform or donation system would be perfectly fine, too.
>
> Comments? Suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Adrian
>
>> [1] https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/23969
>> [2] https://app.bountysource.com/issues/80706251-m68k-convert-the-backend-to-mode_cc-so-it-can-be-kept-in-future-releases
>> [3] https://app.bountysource.com/issues/84630749-avr-convert-the-backend-to-mode_cc-so-it-can-be-kept-in-future-releases
>
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