[Bug 727410] Review Request: ghc-random - Haskell random number library

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--- Comment #7 from Jens Petersen <petersen at redhat.com> 2011-10-17 23:37:41 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> I don't see anything resembling "Haskell Report" in the license list:

Thanks for your vigilant comment.
Hm you're right - somehow I assumed now it was there
since rpmlint seems to accept "Haskell Report".

Actually we were just discussing about the "BSD and Haskell Report"
tagging in #fedora-haskell earlier: see below.

> Did something get missed?

I was just looking at the source headers again earlier
and it seems the main library is just BSD according
to the header in Random.hs.
So I think as Lakshmi also suggested the correct
license tag is most likely just BSD.  But I am going
to contact the upstream maintainer to confirm that
that is correct.

BSD is also the license tag of the current ghc-random subpackages.

Anyway the Haskell Report License is pretty much a BSD-ish
license so I don't think this is too serious a problem.

I just note that random is quite a important Haskell library,
which has been shipped with ghc for a long time.
Currently it has 330 reverse dependencies in Hackage:
http://packdeps.haskellers.com/reverse/random .

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