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From: | Chris Andrew |
Subject: | [gNewSense-users] Re: APT and licences. |
Date: | Sat, 21 Jul 2007 22:49:39 +0100 |
Whatever path you choose, keep in mind that there's nearly as many
licenses as there are programs. Many projects allow exemptions for
OpenSSL. Some projects have different code files under different
licenses. If the use case is to make gnewsense / gobuntu easier to
create, these exemptions make the process far more difficult.
Also, I think you mean dpkg / .deb rather than APT. APT is a tool to
aggregate .debs over a variety of sources. It should be trivial to
add a section to the .deb format, but defining what exactly you need
may be non-trivial.
Justin Dugger
On 7/21/07, Zeth Green <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 08:24:55PM +0100, Chris Andrew wrote:
> > Hi, all.
> >
> > Over at gNewsense, a great idea was mentioned on the list, or IRC; could
> > packages be identified (in the future) using APT, to display the licence
> > used? The idea being that you could select all packages with or without a
> > certain licence, and sort accordingly. This could be a great way for
> > example, to find non-GPL'd (or any other licence) packages.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
>
> Gentoo's portage does include the licence in the metadata, although nothing
> much is done with it. It seems like a good idea at least. This is an
> upstream APT problem rather than a distribution problem. Perhaps the best
> step forward is to track down the APT maintainers to see what can be done.
>
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