On måndagen den 24 december 2007, David Paleino wrote:
> Il giorno Mon, 24 Dec 2007 16:25:43 +
> Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto:
> > On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 16:51:13 +0100
> > David Paleino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Hi *,
> > > would it be possible to have a "License" field in
On Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 11:47:59AM +0100, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
> What about debtags? Wouldn't this be most appropriate?
> - It's optional.
> - It's available from the apt-cache.
> - No need to change dpkg, policy, etc.
Please see
http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/faq.html#any-reason-why-ther
On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 06:52:12PM +0100, David Paleino wrote:
> Anyway, I'm seeing that what I'm telling now has already been proposed for
> debian/copyright. The problem is still there though: the chance to see some
> information about the license of not installed packages not being
> connected
On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 06:39:22PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> Maybe the related question is: once the debian/copyright format is
> widespread enough, how can we make such an information available
> archive-wide mechanically?
Easy: apt-xapian-index.
It works like this:
1. Define what ki
On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 06:52:12PM +0100, David Paleino wrote:
> First of all, thank you for the kind reply. It seemed like the
> Christmas spirit has been blown away from this list.
Thank you for noticing, I still hope that exchanges like this have the
power of improving in the long run the debat
Il giorno Tue, 25 Dec 2007 11:47:59 +0100
Michael Tautschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto:
> What about debtags? Wouldn't this be most appropriate?
> - It's optional.
> - It's available from the apt-cache.
> - No need to change dpkg, policy, etc.
This might be a solution. Something like license
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> > I understand your need, but in this case (as opposed to the others you
> > mention) I believe a new field is not the right solution. The reason is
> > that in the general case too many information would need to be encoded
> > in such a field; that's why a machine interpretable copyright
Hi Neil,
* Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-24 22:52]:
> On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 22:27:53 +0100
> Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > * Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-24 22:03]:
> > > A machine-interpretable format for debian/copyright is already
> > > available.
> >
> > Wh
On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 22:27:53 +0100
Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> * Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-24 22:03]:
> > A machine-interpretable format for debian/copyright is already
> > available.
>
> Where?
http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat
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* Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-24 22:03]:
> On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 16:51:13 +0100
> David Paleino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > would it be possible to have a "License" field in the information of a
> > package?
>
> Why? What is the benefit?
>
> A machine-interpretable format for
David Paleino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> would it be possible to have a "License" field in the information of a
> package? I mean, "apt-cache show foo" shows the fields defined in
> debian/control and some others. Would it be possible to parse the
> license from debian/copyright and add it to
On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 18:43:57 +0100
David Paleino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > From a user perspective, there is no difference between any package in
> > main as far as a licence is concerned.
>
> It's not for users, it's for developers.
But you cannot separate the content of the Packages.gz fi
Il giorno Mon, 24 Dec 2007 18:39:22 +0100
Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto:
> On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 04:51:13PM +0100, David Paleino wrote:
> > would it be possible to have a "License" field in the information of a
> > package?
First of all, thank you for the kind reply. It seem
Il giorno Mon, 24 Dec 2007 17:37:23 +
Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto:
> On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 17:36:06 +0100
> David Paleino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> ...
>
> From a user perspective, there is no difference between any package in
> main as far as a licence is concerned.
It'
On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 04:51:13PM +0100, David Paleino wrote:
> would it be possible to have a "License" field in the information of a
> package?
I understand your need, but in this case (as opposed to the others you
mention) I believe a new field is not the right solution. The reason is
that in
On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 17:36:06 +0100
David Paleino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > A machine-interpretable format for debian/copyright is already
> > available. Why clutter the dpkg and apt-cache with licence lines?
>
> debian/copyright is not available via the APT cache, thus cannot be available
>
Il giorno Mon, 24 Dec 2007 11:10:38 -0600
"Daniel Brumbaugh Keeney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto:
> On Dec 24, 2007 11:07 AM, David Paleino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > If the license is free, but it's not a "standard" one, one could always
> > write:
> >
> > License: see debian/copyright.
On Dec 24, 2007 11:07 AM, David Paleino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If the license is free, but it's not a "standard" one, one could always write:
>
> License: see debian/copyright.
> David
That seems unnecessary, being the effective default.
Daniel Brumbaugh Keeney
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Il giorno Mon, 24 Dec 2007 18:03:39 +0100
Julien Cristau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto:
> On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 16:51:13 +0100, David Paleino wrote:
>
> > Hi *,
> > would it be possible to have a "License" field in the information of a
> > package? I mean, "apt-cache show foo" shows the fields
On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 16:51:13 +0100, David Paleino wrote:
> Hi *,
> would it be possible to have a "License" field in the information of a
> package?
> I mean, "apt-cache show foo" shows the fields defined in debian/control and
> some others. Would it be possible to parse the license from debi
Il giorno Mon, 24 Dec 2007 16:25:43 +
Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto:
> On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 16:51:13 +0100
> David Paleino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi *,
> > would it be possible to have a "License" field in the information of a
> > package?
>
> Why? What is the benefit
On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 16:51:13 +0100
David Paleino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi *,
> would it be possible to have a "License" field in the information of a
> package?
Why? What is the benefit?
A machine-interpretable format for debian/copyright is already
available. Why clutter the dpkg and ap
Hi *,
would it be possible to have a "License" field in the information of a package?
I mean, "apt-cache show foo" shows the fields defined in debian/control and
some others. Would it be possible to parse the license from debian/copyright
and add it to that info? Or, at least, give the chance to de
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