Hi Alex, Ok, I'm only on 1.6.0.1. Does 0.7 also support GPL-2+ ? Without a way to specify the difference between there will still be a question mark.
Thanks, Neil On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 4:43 AM, Alexander Dunlap <[email protected]> wrote: > What version of Cabal are you using? With Cabal 1.7.3 and > cabal-install 0.7, GPL-2 works. > > Alex > > On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Neil Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Alex, >> >> License: GPL-2 >> Warning: 'license: GPL-2' is not a recognised license. >> >> License: GPL-2+ >> cabal: hlint.cabal:6: Parse of field 'license' failed. >> >> This doesn't seem particularly attractive, given License: GPL, on a >> reasonable reading, probably means GPL v1.0 and above, or just GPL >> v1.0 - unlikely to be what anyone intended. >> >> Thanks, Neil >> >> On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 1:18 AM, Alexander Dunlap >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Neil Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I just got approached by Fedora maintainers with the query that HLint >>>> doesn't specify it's license fully. The License field in the cabal >>>> file says "GPL", and the LICENSE file has a copy of the GPL v2, but I >>>> never say GPL version 2, or GPL version 2 and above etc. What is the >>>> Cabal approved way to indicate your licensing constraints? I suspect >>>> all other distro's packaging HLint have just guessed, or gone GPL 2 >>>> because that's clearly a subset of what I might have intended. >>>> >>>> Thanks, Neil >>>> >>>> PS. For anyone who stumbles across this email, the intention was to >>>> license HLint under the GPL v2, but if that license doesn't suit >>>> someone, email me. >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> cabal-devel mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel >>>> >>> >>> I think you just specify the license as GPL-2. >>> >>> Alex >>> >> > _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
