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

[Michael Snoyman]

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<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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