Haskell Platform Proposal: HLint

[Bryan O'Sullivan]

Hlint isn't a library, right? And as an application, it presumably doesn't for any practical reason need its dependencies in the platform in order to itself be included?

On Nov 7, 2010, at 13:13, Neil Mitchell <ndmitchell at gmail.com> wrote:

> HLint is currently GPL licensed, but if that ever became an impediment
> to anyone doing anything with it I'd be willing to relicense it as
> BSD, including if that was the only thing blocking inclusion in the
> platform. HLint relies on cpphs and hscolour which are LGPL/GPL, which
> may be a problem.
> 
> On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Stephen Tetley <stephen.tetley at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Personally I'm neutral on the issue, but I think the Platform avoids
>> GPL code - I can't find the policy stating as such as the Platform
>> website doesn't seem to link to the "meta" discussions and policy.
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