On 10 Sep 2015 10:46 pm, "Robby Findler" <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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?
+1 to that. Help the user get the relevant information and let him make the tough choices. > > 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. > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Developers" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/CAGspUn2j74%3D4o_N2YeoiWx%3DOdrcaKYobeoTdNbp5pKxfZOn3Rg%40mail.gmail.com . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/CAL3TdOPys-r3px8bA4iEEPMBvAO8xM1QrrUNv%3DK9MSoqaiJMgA%40mail.gmail.com . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/CABNTSaHBtqAKV0mTceSdcfHPi99Hfvw%2B-SoKN1gLpuz7AQQ7Hw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
