#18350: Search for packages using license
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Reporter: eschultz@… | Owner: developers
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: lowest | Milestone:
Component: base system | Version: Trunk
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Currently, there's no way to search for software based upon license via
scripts/feeds search. I propose that we modify feeds to allow searching by
license.
Feeds can be modified in two ways to incorporate license into searches:
1. Add the value of the license tag into the normal full text search
2. Modify search to handle searching based upon multiple characteristics.
For example, search for packages with "web server" in the name and "GPL"
in the license
There are advantages and disadvantages to both choices. Choice one would
be very quick to modify; in fact, it'd be a single line change. That said,
it wouldn't be very reliable. For example, as the word GPL could be in a
package description but not be under a GPL license.
Choice two would be much more reliable and would add the ability to filter
in more granular ways. It could also allow the ability to search for
packages without any license. On the other hand, it could require
significant changes to the feeds file.
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/18350>
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