[Haskell-cafe] Hackage suggestion: Gather the list of the licenses of all dependencies of a package

[Michael Snoyman]

Are you referring to:

http://code.haskell.org/cpphs/LICENCE-commercial

If the package is dual-licensed BSD3 and LGPL, maybe Malcolm could change
the cabal file to mention the BSD3 so that its package description is less
intimidating?


On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 4:12 PM, Felipe Almeida Lessa <
felipe.lessa at gmail.com> wrote:

> While you're at it, maybe whitelisting cpphs would be nice as well =).
>
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Michael Snoyman <michael at snoyman.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Vincent Hanquez <tab at snarc.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 12/13/2012 12:51 PM, Michael Snoyman wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I think that's a great idea. I just implemented this on PackDeps:
> >>>
> >>> http://packdeps.haskellers.com/licenses
> >>>
> >>> As with all features on that site, I'll be happy to deprecate it as
> soon
> >>> as Hackage incorporates the feature in the future.
> >>
> >>
> >> awesome Michael !
> >>
> >> However i think ithis shouldn't take dependencies from tests and
> >> benchmarks.
> >> This doesn't make differences for the "overall" license that the library
> >> "exposes".
> >>
> >> --
> >> Vincent
> >
> >
> > Hmm, that's a good point. I'll admit I hadn't really thought this
> through,
> > but I can actually see an argument going both ways on this:
> >
> > * Viral licenses won't actually affect you if they're just used for test
> > suites.
> > * But company lawyers will probably be nervous about it anyway.
> >
> > Nonetheless, I think you have the right of it. Unless people say
> otherwise,
> > I'm going to implement Vincent's change.
> >
> > Michael
> >
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>
> --
> Felipe.
>
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