[Haskell-cafe] Cabal && license combinations

Henning Thielemann lemming at henning-thielemann.de
Wed Feb 16 19:26:30 CET 2011


Chris Smith schrieb:
> It feels to me like a quite reasonable simplification that if someone
> wants to offer different bits of code, with the intent that the license
> terms of the eventual executable may be different depending on which
> bits you use, then they ought to do so in different packages.  It's
> simple enough to do, and removes the need to do per-module license
> considerations.

I think separating bindings to GSL and LAPACK is a good idea anyway, and
as far as I remember the author of hmatrix agrees to that, but he did
not actually split the bindings due to lack of time.



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