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

[Felipe Almeida Lessa]

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:
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> On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Vincent Hanquez <tab at snarc.org> wrote:
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>> On 12/13/2012 12:51 PM, Michael Snoyman wrote:
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>>> I think that's a great idea. I just implemented this on PackDeps:
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>>> http://packdeps.haskellers.com/licenses
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>>> As with all features on that site, I'll be happy to deprecate it as soon
>>> as Hackage incorporates the feature in the future.
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>> awesome Michael !
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>> 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".
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>> --
>> Vincent
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> 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:
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> * 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.
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> Nonetheless, I think you have the right of it. Unless people say otherwise,
> I'm going to implement Vincent's change.
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> Michael
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-- 
Felipe.