[Offtopic?] Cabal package license and copyright holder question
Hi all, I don't know if this is the right place to ask but, since it's somehow Haskell-related I decided to use haskell-cafe. I'm cabalizing a library which, apart from my own code, has code taken from others. As it could be expected, each piece has its own copyright holder and (slightly) different license. The concrete holder and licenses are clearly annotated in every module. But, even with that, I'm not sure if I'm entitled to set an overall copyright holder and license for the whole cabal package. So, right now, I'm not sure about what license and holder filelds should I set in my .cabal file. Could anyone who had encounterd this problem before suggest a solution? Thanks, Fons
On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 12:58 +0100, Alfonso Acosta wrote:
Hi all,
I don't know if this is the right place to ask but, since it's somehow Haskell-related I decided to use haskell-cafe.
I'm cabalizing a library which, apart from my own code, has code taken from others. As it could be expected, each piece has its own copyright holder and (slightly) different license.
The concrete holder and licenses are clearly annotated in every module. But, even with that, I'm not sure if I'm entitled to set an overall copyright holder and license for the whole cabal package. So, right now, I'm not sure about what license and holder filelds should I set in my .cabal file.
The copyright field is free-form so you can list all the copyright holders. You can use multiple lines. See for example: http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/bytestring/0.9.0.1/bytestring.ca... Then for the license, use Other and specify a license file with all the appropriate license included in it, or refer to the license files of the various bits. Duncan
The copyright field is free-form so you can list all the copyright holders. You can use multiple lines. See for example: http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/bytestring/0.9.0.1/bytestring.ca...
Then for the license, use Other and specify a license file with all the appropriate license included in it, or refer to the license files of the various bits.
Thanks for the quick reply Duncan, I'll make use of your suggestion.
On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 12:58:52 +0100, Alfonso Acosta wrote:
Hi all,
I don't know if this is the right place to ask but, since it's somehow Haskell-related I decided to use haskell-cafe.
I'm cabalizing a library which, apart from my own code, has code taken from others. As it could be expected, each piece has its own copyright holder and (slightly) different license.
The concrete holder and licenses are clearly annotated in every module. But, even with that, I'm not sure if I'm entitled to set an overall copyright holder and license for the whole cabal package. So, right now, I'm not sure about what license and holder filelds should I set in my .cabal file.
Could anyone who had encounterd this problem before suggest a solution?
The Haskell Cryptographic Library[1] “suffers” from the same problem. IMHO it has a slightly unconventional solution to the problem. /M [1]: http://www.haskell.org/crypto/ -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus．therning＠gmail．com http://therning.org/magnus
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