On 28/01/14 11:45, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> LMGTFY I understand and agree with, but why the URL shortening? You only >> saved... >> http://lmgtfy.com/?q=viber >> ... 2 characters and you also hit innocent bystanders like me :p > > BTW, LMGTFY was OK for the "What's viber?" part, but for the "Is > it libre?" it's a bit trickier since proprietary software usually > doesn't boast "we're neither Free Software nor Open Source", so your > only recourse is to either assume it's proprietary because you didn't > find a Free license, or try to install the program and read the EULA > (if you don't read it, you may get fooled since some Free Software has > a stupid "EULA license dialog" even though the user doesn't legally need > to agree to that license in order to use the software). > > > Stefan > >
Software license? The lazy way is to check wikipedia and see if someone else has done the license homework. If it's a regular exercise create a bash script that takes a the name of the software as positional parameter to check ($?) for it's existence e.g.:- curl -s --head http://wikipedia.org/wiki/$1 | head -n 1 | grep "HTTP/1.[01] [23].." and if it exists, scrape the page for the license e.g.:- $ curl -s http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viber|html2text|grep License|head -n1 For the truly lazy, post the question on debian-user ;) Hint: the answer is "proprietary" Apropos Viber, Peachphone, also proprietary, 'might' be useful though I haven't tried it yet:- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flysms-send-webcam-video-by-mm/ Kind regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52e70580.4040...@gmail.com
