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| author | Grant Bowman <grantbow at grantbow dot com> | 2002-12-22 02:14:06 +0000 |
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| committer | Grant Bowman <grantbow at grantbow dot com> | 2002-12-22 02:14:06 +0000 |
| commit | d54542184be15d269a9b26c7fb118bb02c13aa96 (patch) | |
| tree | ee0854578544873de2ccf3a6f2dba4a078b4735e /Hurd | |
| parent | 3a8f5b997ccadb99c2f4c50046c553f20d9a9125 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/Hurd/DebianGNUHurdLicensing.mdwn b/Hurd/DebianGNUHurdLicensing.mdwn index 5e4b323d..eff1955e 100644 --- a/Hurd/DebianGNUHurdLicensing.mdwn +++ b/Hurd/DebianGNUHurdLicensing.mdwn @@ -1,9 +1 @@ -There are differences betwen the [Debian Free Software Guidelines](http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines) (DFSG) and [Free Software](http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/free-sw.html) as defined by the Free Software Foundation. The FSF's GNU project is the sponsor of the GNU/Hurd project. Debian GNU/Hurd is a "port" or distribution of this software. I have not yet performed a comparison between the list of acceptable DFSG licenses (if a list exists) and the acceptable Free Software [license list](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html). (Not directly related but for reference, here's the Open Source [license list](http://www.opensource.org/licenses/index.html)) The packages marked "Essential" should be checked for the type of license they use. - -What will this consist of? In the end the result will need to be simply a list of packages with their license marked next to them. This will be relatively simple for those packages that use a standard license. Software that has it's own custom license will need to be categorized. - -I am thinking of ways to automatically check the licenses and to get lists of the various "Priority:" packages. I thought this list of package names would be easy to obtain. The first step is getting the list of packages. This is possible by parsing /var/lib/dpkg/available, using dpkg or using apt-cache. - -The next step is checking the licenses of the packages. There is no dpkg package field available for license. A script that checks licenses will involve using "apt-get source" to check the COPYING and/or similar files in each package. - --- [[Main/GrantBow]] - 5 Oct 2002 +This page has moved to [[Distrib/SoftwareLicensing]] |