No subject

used as a preprocessor its license doesn't really matter.  Many
packages on that list have a LGPL "taint" because one of its deps use
cpphs.  So the whitelist of cpphs would be stating that nobody is
using cpphs as a library (which may be false, but is mostly true ;).

[1] http://code.haskell.org/cpphs/README

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Michael Snoyman <michael at snoyman.com> wrote:
> Are you referring to:
>
> http://code.haskell.org/cpphs/LICENCE-commercial
>
> If the package is dual-licensed BSD3 and LGPL, maybe Malcolm could change
> the cabal file to mention the BSD3 so that its package description is less
> intimidating?
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 4:12 PM, Felipe Almeida Lessa
> <felipe.lessa at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 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
>> >>>
>> >>> 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
>> >
>> > _______________________________________________
>> > Haskell-Cafe mailing list
>> > Haskell-Cafe at haskell.org
>> > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Felipe.
>
>



-- 
Felipe.