Re: Bug#435058: ITP: smolt -- Fedora hardware profiler

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[Paul Wise]
> Ricky, perhaps you could make Fedora aware of hardware4linux and
> suggest that both efforts be merged (since the Fedora one aims to be
> multi-distro).

The hardware4linux system seem to be very nice, but there is a slight
problem with the licensing.  The data is provided using Creative
Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 France License, and
the noncommercial part is especially problematic for Debian use.  This
is the terms of service as reported by
<URL:http://hardware4linux.info/about/tos/>:

  By uploading data and giving information to hardware4linux.info, you
  agree to give the copyright to hardware4linux.info. In return,
  hardware4linux.info is providing regular dumps of its data without
  user information under a Creative Commons
  Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 France License.

While probing the dataset, it seem to need some cleaning.  Several
duplicate entries with different spelling are present (like Dell/Dell
Computer and Hewleet-Packard/Hewlett-Packard/HP).  This make it hard
to automatically process the collected data.

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen