Il giorno Mon, 24 Dec 2007 16:25:43 +0000 Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> ha scritto: > On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 16:51:13 +0100 > David Paleino <d.paleino@gmail.com> 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 apt-cache with licence lines? debian/copyright is not available via the APT cache, thus cannot be available to wrappers like python-apt and others. > ... > > Some packages can have multiple (compatible) licences - the details of > what is licenced under which can only be properly determined by reading > debian/copyright. It's installed for every package so I don't see the > point. Again, it's not about _installed_ packages, but about fetching this information from the APT cache (i.e. can't install packages on Alioth just to read debian/copyright...), or any other place that won't require root privileges (debian/copyright is online, but I believe that parsing it might be kind of a nightmare, if one wants to give a "standardized" output). I wondered whether one could add a "custom" XS-License field to his packages, would that be ok? It doesn't really matter if they become "official" (like Homepage and Vcs-* did), it's just for the matter of parsing the APT cache (see [1] to understand what I'm trying to achieve). Kindly, David [1] http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/bio.php -- . ''`. Debian maintainer | http://snipurl.com/qa_page : :' : Linuxer #334216 | http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 | http://www.debianizzati.org/ `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174
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