About packages-metadata [was: Re: Freeness of this license]
On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 13:50:46 +0900 Charles Plessy wrote: [...] I would like to advertise the packages-metadata repository: http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/collab-qa/packages-metadata/ svn://svn.debian.org/collab-qa/packages-metadata/ http://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamMetadata Today it already contains 3431 Debian copyright files. Most of them are up to date (but consistency checks have not been implemented yet). Using this tool, one can search for similar license terms in the Debian archive. Note that the pool includes the non-free section... How can one search for similar terms in the Debian archive? I failed to spot a dedicated search functionality... Do you mean that one can search by cloning the subversion repository and then using grep (and other similar tools) recursively in the resulting local directory tree? -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt New GnuPG key, see the transition document! . Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE pgpp8STXojtj2.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: About packages-metadata [was: Re: Freeness of this license]
Le Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 07:25:30PM +0200, Francesco Poli a écrit : Do you mean that one can search by cloning the subversion repository and then using grep (and other similar tools) recursively in the resulting local directory tree? Yes, exactly. Since the all the copright files are in a subdirectory, the grep command can also be run on '*/*.copyright' instead of recursively; this will remove some noise as Subversion keeps copies in subdirectories. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120830230352.ga3...@falafel.plessy.net
