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

[Michael Snoyman]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 9:51 PM, Daniel Trstenjak <
daniel.trstenjak at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> 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.
>
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In the case of cpphs, there's no way to determine that we're using it as a
library or an executable, since it's just listed in the build-depends.

Michael
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