Ticket #889 (new enhancement)
Add option to list recursive dependencies of a package along with their licenses
| Reported by: | joeyadams | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | cabal-install-0.16 |
| Component: | cabal-install tool | Version: | HEAD |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | Difficulty: | unknown | |
| GHC Version: | Platform: |
Description
It should be possible to list all of the dependencies of a package, including their licenses. This would be useful for:
- Developers writing proprietary applications.
- Developers who don't want their liberally-licensed libraries to be "upgraded" to the GPL or similar by subtle dependencies.
Attached is a simple patch that makes cabal-install list this information when the verbosity level is 2 or higher. Sample usage:
$ cabal install --verbose=2 --dry-run gnutls
Reading available packages...
Resolving dependencies...
base BSD3
bytestring BSD3
ffi BSD3
ghc-prim BSD3
gnutls GPL (Just (Version {versionBranch = [3], versionTags = []}))
integer-gmp BSD3
monads-tf BSD3
rts BSD3
transformers BSD3
In order, the following would be installed:
monads-tf-0.1.0.0 (new package)
gnutls-0.1 (new package)
This is a quick hack, as I am not familiar with the Cabal codebase. This should probably be wrapped as a --list-licenses command line switch. Pretty-printing licenses would be a plus.
I am already finding this feature useful, and hope others will too.
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