Neil Mitchell wrote:
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.
There is a similar problem with some packages (ie bzlib) having BSD3 in the .cabal file but having a 2 clause BSD LICENSE file. This caused problems for me when I packaged bzlib for Debian. Erik -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/