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Re: Crowdfunding a small but important powerpc bugfix



Hi!

On Wed, 2023-10-11 at 08:58 -0600, Stan Johnson wrote:
> 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

It's just the standard 3-clause BSD license [1] and those are GPL-compatible [2].

Adrian

> [1] https://opensource.org/license/bsd-3-clause/
> [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/License_compatibility#GPL_compatibility

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