On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 11:06:09AM +0200, Juergen Weigert wrote:
That can be timeconsuming as it also contains things like: 634 Other License(s), see package 162 distributable 28 Unknown 25 Contact author, Other License(s), see package 6 Contact author, Restricted Shareware 3 Contact author 2 Unknown, Other License(s), see package 2 Other License(s), see package, Unknown
This is an unfortunate limitation of our package database. It can only distinguish a limited set of hardcoded licenses. All the rest shows up as the above.
There is a total of 90+ licences, so how high is that limit?
So that is nearly thousand that you need to explore one by one.
Hey, that is about half the distribution, isn't it? Please file me a bugzilla for that.
What should I enter in that bug? I have just done a pin with some grep and awk and for all I know it does not give the correct output. I use the ARCHIVES.gz from the FTP site, so things are double. e,g, it also has i386 and PPC and debug in it. When I compare to the ARCHIVES.gz that comes with the distro, I still have a total of about 150 undefined licences. Again, I have no idea what I should put in a bug-report as I have no insight in how SUSE/Novell looks at how what packages are included. houghi -- Nutze die Zeit. Sie ist das Kostbarste, was wir haben, denn es ist unwiederbringliche Lebenszeit. Leben ist aber mehr als Werk und Arbeit, und das Sein wichtiger als das Tun - Johannes Müller-Elmau