Re: Specific license field

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 wrote:

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Neil Mitchell wrote:

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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.

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I think you just specify the license as GPL-2.

Alex