Jari Aalto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > To my understanding the only way to obtain the license information for a > package is to actually download it (or install it) and the study the > content of
> /usr/share/doc/<package>/copyright > It would be better if user could use the packaging search commands, like > grep-dctrl -F License ... --and -F package ... Out of curiosity, why? What problem are you trying to solve? > PROPOSAL: > Add new field to the debian/control (which would be generated by > dh-make): > License: > It would contain a canonicalized word to describe the license in > questions, like: > GPL, GPL2, GPL3, LGPL, BSD, Perl Artistic, MIT/X ..... Custom This has been proposed before. One of the problems with this idea is that many packages have more complex licenses than that, ones that cannot be easily encapsulated into a single term. Many packages contain files under various different licenses and many packages are covered under minor modifications to standard licenses, so coming up with these terms becomes a bit complicated, can't be fully accurate, and seems likely to spawn a complicated set of rules that are hard to verify. In other words, it seems like a lot of work, and it's not clear what problem it would really solve. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
