On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 12:44 +0100, Stefan Kersten wrote: > On 10.02.11 12:12, Duncan Coutts wrote: > > We are already working on a feature that will show the full set of > > licenses that the end user must comply with (a patch has been submitted > > and it's been through one round of review so far). In your example that > > would mean you expect the set to be {BSD} but the tool will show you > > that it is in fact {BSD, GPL}. You can then use that as your warning > > that the set of licenses is not what you expected. > > that would be quite useful for those who want to distribute executables! > > may i also suggest the following feature: collect all the copyright notices > and > license files from each dependency (many licenses require those to be > displayed > and distributed along with the executable) and optionally bundle them with the > applicaton's data-files? i briefly looked into this, but couldn't find a way > to > retrieve the installed License-File from ~/.cabal using Cabal. doing this by > hand turns out to be quite tedious when there are many dependencies ...
Right, that feature was also in the patch. From experience I know that this would indeed be very useful (I've also had to do it manually). Duncan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe