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

[Daniel Trstenjak]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 08:40:09PM +0200, Michael Snoyman wrote:
> If you have a commercial use for cpphs, and feel the terms of the (L)GPL
> are too onerous, you have the option of distributing unmodified binaries
> (only, not sources) under the terms of a different licence (see
> LICENCE-commercial).

I think that depedencies to binaries, like cpphs, should be treated
differently than depedencies to libraries, because using a (L)GPL-ed
binary mostly hasn't any implications for a "commercial" user and
also for the output of a (L)GPL-ed binary usually the (L)GPL doesn't apply.