Robert Greayer wrote: > There's still a lot of gray area here -- the mere existence of a dependency > doesn't imply that a software package is useless without the dependency, > so there are many situations in which P could depend on Q and not be > a derivative of Q, because the dependency can be disabled in some way > and the software would still function. As an example -- pandoc can be > built with or without highlighting-kate, and is useful either way. They're > both > GPL and by the same author, so there's no issue, but were that not the > case it would seem obvious that pandoc isn't derivative of -kate, and > thus could (by this reasoning) be released independently under different > terms. The same may not be true of the hakyll / pandoc situation which > sparked this controversy.
>From what I gather, Hakyll is helper program / library for generating static websites. It uses pandoc to offer a default markdown -> html converter, which means that it's also useful without it. Regards, Heinrich Apfelmus -- http://apfelmus.nfshost.com _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe