[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Comments regarding haskell-mime-mail-ses_0.3.2-1_amd64.changes

Joachim Breitner nomeata at debian.org
Mon Dec 15 15:33:13 UTC 2014


Hi Christopher,


Am Montag, den 15.12.2014, 09:29 -0600 schrieb Christopher Reichert:
> On Mon, Dec 15 2014, Thorsten Alteholz <ftpmaster at ftp-master.debian.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I marked your package for accept, but somebody should ask upstream to
> > find a better name for the license.
>
>
> Do you mean that the MIT license is undesirable? Or that there is a
> problem somewhere naming?

the latter. The license used by upstream is not the MIT license, despite
the cabal file (and hence debian/copyright) claiming that to be the
case.

It rather looks like BSD-3.

You should notify upstream about it, best with a pull request updating
the .cabal file.

Greetings,
Joachim

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