Hello, In my packages, I typically use a format with: * COPYRIGHT: the collection of copyright statements * COPYING: My license * 3rd-party-licenses/*: Licenses for contributed code Now, most of my packages these days don't have 3rd-party-licenses. But there is a problem with Cabal's sdist. It doesn't put files into the generated tarball that it doesn't know about. On a project of any reasonable size, there may be two dozen people that hold copyrights on parts of it. It's not practical to keep that all up-to-date in the .cabal file, IMHO. That's why I have the COPYRIGHT file. The license file is useless without it. So what do I do here to make sure that all the license docs wind up in the generated tar.gz? In case you're wondering, I don't like to hack up the COPYING file with all the local copyright stuff. Just makes it more annoying to have all that in the license file. -- John