1 Jul
2008
1 Jul
'08
3:21 p.m.
On 2008 Jul 1, at 15:08, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
And we already have a situation where omissions are significant. Consider the license: field. If a license isn't specified, it must, legally, be AllRightsReserved. That's the law.
A missing Cabal license field says "there is no information about license here", not "all rights reserved": thus, the field distinguishes
Sadly, the law disagrees. If no license is specified, the license *is* "All Rights Reserved". It doesn't matter what conventions we'd like to apply. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH