there will never be an expressive enough licenses datatype. Law is complicated and fluid and changing. Period.
On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 3:43 PM, Francesco Ariis <fa...@ariis.it> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 07, 2015 at 12:50:19AM -0500, Carter Schonwald wrote: > > i'm very uncomfortable with the "warn on other-license" change. I think > > theres lots of valid reasons that someone may be using an amended license > > (eg BSD / MIT plus an explicit patent license grant) that strictly more > > open/free than any standard OSS license on the planet. > > I had a brief chat with dcoutts on freenode/#hackage, he informed me > he would rather have the AllRightsReserved patch on hackage-server > (and only in the public server branch) rather than cabal. > > dcoutts also expressed similar objections on OtherLicense's warning > (on the ground that dual licensing isn't supported by cabal yet, a > a legitimate usage of OtherLicense). > > My view is that, with an expressive enough License datatype which covers > an ample portion of usages, the warning could still be pragmatically > useful ("do you really have a reason to draft a new document when there > is probably something tried and tested out there which could do for your > case?"). > > Thanks for sharing your opinion! > _______________________________________________ > cabal-devel mailing list > cabal-devel@haskell.org > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel >
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