Maybe the right thing is to just collect the set of licenses of all
dependencies of a given pkg as an alternative view of some pkg, and
then you could navigate around yourself to make decisions?

Robby

On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Greg Hendershott
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I think it would be a big improvement over the status quo, even if the
> only rule were dumb, simple equality: "Check whether all these
> packages use the exact same license."
>
> Even just that would probably help most of the people most of the time?
>
>
> Mixing licenses, yeah I don't really know. I want to believe it would
> be possible to help people get an approximately better understanding.
> Maybe along the lines of:
>
>   http://creativecommons.org/choose/
>
> Of course yes that comes with a "no legal advice" disclaimer in section 4 of:
>
>   http://creativecommons.org/terms
>
> Regardless, I think there's a lot of space between the extremes of
> ignorance and professional expertise. In that wide space, anything
> that increases comprehension or even minimal awareness is helpful, I
> think.
>
> But I realize anything behind a simple license equality check is
> beyond the scope of Racket, and is a job for some other organization.
>
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