agreeing a policy for maintainers and hackageDB

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On 2008 Jul 1, at 15:08, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:

>> And we already have a situation where omissions are significant.
>> Consider the license: field. If a license isn't specified, it must,
>> legally, be AllRightsReserved. That's the law.
>
> A missing Cabal license field says "there is no information about
> license here", not "all rights reserved": thus, the field  
> distinguishes

Sadly, the law disagrees.  If no license is specified, the license  
*is* "All Rights Reserved". It doesn't matter what conventions we'd  
like to apply.

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