[Haskell-cafe] Cabal package with BSD3 library and LGPL executable?

Malcolm Wallace malcolm.wallace at cs.york.ac.uk
Thu Apr 29 11:10:07 EDT 2010


On 29 Apr 2010, at 13:18, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:

> Stephen Tetley <stephen.tetley at gmail.com> writes:
>> Thanks. As far as the Cabal file goes - CppHs is LGPL, its in the
>> included README that the GPL distinction is noticed. Possibly this
>> isn't the clearest way of presenting things...
>
> Well, currently Cabal only lets you specify one license, so your  
> options
> are to either use OtherLicense like Bulat suggested and then specify  
> in
> the License file what's what, or else do as cpphs does.

I suggest submitting a feature request for Cabal: permit separate  
licences on each executable stanza.

Regards,
     Malcolm



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