Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal's License type: MIT commented out?

2009-12-24 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 18:16 -0600, Tom Tobin wrote: I noticed on Hackage that packages that are MIT licensed show up as OtherLicense. I took a peek inside the Cabal code, and noticed that the License type has lines for MIT, but commented out [1]: ---- | The MIT license, similar to the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal's License type: MIT commented out?

2009-12-24 Thread Tom Tobin
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 5:12 AM, Duncan Coutts duncan.cou...@googlemail.com wrote: So the reason it's there commented out in the Cabal-1.6 code you're looking at is to remind us to uncomment it for Cabal-1.8 (which it now is, along with the versioned (L)GPL licenses). Ahh, okay. (I love when

[Haskell-cafe] Cabal's License type: MIT commented out?

2009-12-23 Thread Tom Tobin
I noticed on Hackage that packages that are MIT licensed show up as OtherLicense. I took a peek inside the Cabal code, and noticed that the License type has lines for MIT, but commented out [1]: ---- | The MIT license, similar to the BSD3. Very free license. -- | MIT Why is this? Both