Tom Tobin <korp...@korpios.com> wrote: > Maybe it would be useful if Cabal had some sort of licensing check > command that could be run on a .cabal file, and warn an author if any > libraries it depends on (directly or indirectly) are GPL'd but the > .cabal itself does not have the license set to GPL. > Or are dual-licensed under GPL. That is, the license field in .cabals should take a list or even bool ops, and cabal sdist should utterly fail (as well as hackage) if code that depends on GPL isn't marked as GPL.
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