On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 05:56:08PM -0800, Isaac Jones wrote:
* What any good package should have: package (name and version) :: PackageIdentifier, license :: License, -- OR? licenseFile :: FilePath, copyright :: String, maintainer :: String, synopsis :: String,
Personally, I think it should be an error if any of these fields are missing. I think I'll go implement that now. Stop me if you object.
I think license-file (for which you give a warning) is more important than copyright: it tells a user what they can use the package for. I'm not suggesting that license-file be required, just that copyright shouldn't be. Indeed public domain works have no copyright. And what about packages that are unmaintained?