On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 12:44 +0100, Stefan Kersten wrote:

On 10.02.11 12:12, Duncan Coutts wrote:

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We are already working on a feature that will show the full set of licenses that the end user must comply with (a patch has been submitted and it's been through one round of review so far). In your example that would mean you expect the set to be {BSD} but the tool will show you that it is in fact {BSD, GPL}. You can then use that as your warning that the set of licenses is not what you expected.

that would be quite useful for those who want to distribute executables!

may i also suggest the following feature: collect all the copyright notices and license files from each dependency (many licenses require those to be displayed and distributed along with the executable) and optionally bundle them with the applicaton's data-files? i briefly looked into this, but couldn't find a way to retrieve the installed License-File from ~/.cabal using Cabal. doing this by hand turns out to be quite tedious when there are many dependencies ...

Right, that feature was also in the patch. From experience I know that this would indeed be very useful (I've also had to do it manually). Duncan