On Friday 22 February 2008 19:36:38 Travis Willard wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Xavi Soler <xavi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > My intention is to know the number of non-free packages installed on my > > system. In Debian I can use 'vrms' [1]. I think Arch has nothing > > similar, but I can start programming an application like 'vrms' (maybe > > using libalpm or calling pacman directly). > > > > My first test has been typing: > > > > $ pacman -Q | pacman -Qi | less > > > > and reading carefully the license fields: most (BSDs and MITs specially) > > say 'custom'. The big problem I've found is that, quite often, I read > > the word 'none' there, but I can't understant how can it happen in > > packages stored in official repos. There are a lot of packages without > > license field. > > > > I could do a heavy research to know which packages include a license > > field and which don't, and then warn their mantainers. But it would be a > > waste of time. > > A waste of time we've already done. We know which packages don't have > licenses - we even have a huge todo list of them. We'll get to them > at some point. I was talking about packages that have a known license but it is not in the PKGBUILD. For example, acpi is a GPL program in [extra] which don't have a licence field in its PKGBUILD. -- Blog: http://interrupciones.net
