>> I actually think we should *remove* meta.license entirely (because it doesn't >> provide useful info to users and tends to be wrong or incomplete anyway), and >> replace it with attributes that have operational meaning:
> People who do care about the exact license of a package should use a tool like > Ninka do extract the actual license, rather than depend on meta.license > (since, > as I said, it tends to be incomplete or wrong). How do the attributes solve this issue? One can specify an incorrect attribute, no? I don’t see a problem. If a Nix package specifies a wrong license, fix it. If you use a tool like cabal2nix and the problem is upstream, then send a patch upstream. I did this for yesod-markdown, no big deal.
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