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

[Brent Yorgey]

On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 08:13:44AM +0100, Petr P wrote:
> This is strange, I thought that cpphs should be specified in
> "build-tools:", not in "build-depends:".
> <
> http://www.haskell.org/cabal/users-guide/developing-packages.html#build-information
> >
> 
> Best regards,
> Petr

Presumably the reason to list it in build-depends instead of
build-tools is that in the latter case cabal will not automatically
install it as a dependency.  But you are right that this is a strange
situation, since if it is being used only as a preprocessor,
semantically it ought to be listed in build-tools.

-Brent

> 2012/12/13 Michael Snoyman <michael at snoyman.com>
> 
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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