#247: Needless license warning on PublicDomain ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: guest | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: low | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.2.3.0 Severity: minor | Keywords: Difficulty: normal | Ghcversion: 6.8.2 Platform: | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- While looking at harp, I noticed that during 'runhaskell Setup configure', it was emitting a warning about no 'license-file' field. Which is perfectly fine and appropriate most of the time, but harp's cabal file mentions 'License: PublicDomain'. Strictly speaking, PublicDomain isn't even a license. For there to be a license, there must be copyright, and public domain is by definition the lack of copyright. Even if you don't buy this, it still would not make sense to want a license file, as it cannot say anything that the words 'public domain' do not (hence, needless and wasteful). So Cabal is implicitly encouraging something which is wrong-headed or pointless. It's not a big deal, but it shouldn't be warning about it. -- gwern -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/247 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects