On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 04:20:05PM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote: > in the Debtags development mailing list, we are discussing about the > creation of a set of categories (which we call 'facet') about licenses, > and we would like to include debian-legal in the discussion. > > The idea is to allow people to query packages such as "LGPL libraries to > edit images". We can do "libraries to edit images" already, but we > don't yet have categories for licenses. > > There has been a bit of discussion in the list already that you probably > want to read: > > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debtags-devel/2005-June/000406.html > > More informations about Debtags and its way of classifying software can > be found in the paper I submitted for Debconf5: > > http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/paper-debtags.html > > We'd be glad if you had comments to contribute to our discussion. You've got a problem with this one, because licenses can be combined conjunctively and disjunctively. So a package might be both entirely under foo and entirely under bar (foo || bar), or it might be partially under foo and partially under bar (foo && bar). And last I checked, debtags wasn't really equipped to express stuff like that. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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