[packagekit] Free and non-free filter

[S.Çağlar Onur]

Hi;

Monday 03 December 2007 Tarihinde 20:10:46 yazmıştı:
> For the soon to be discussed EULA licence stuff, I want to add another
> filter; "free" and "~free" based on the package licence.
>
> For example, I could do "SearchDescription available;free
> virtualisation" to get all the packages I could install for
> non-proprietary solutions. I guess we can just whitelist the GPL, GPLv2,
> GPLv2+ type strings for this and keep it nicely simple.
>
> Of course, "free" can take all the usually debates on it's meaning, but
> I take "free" to mean "FSF declared this licence as free" rather than
> "this costs nothing".
>
> The GPLv2+ matching should probably be shared somewhere in a nice
> boolean=pk_backend_license_is_free(string) matching function. We can use
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing as an initial reference, as I
> guess most of the other backends will have similar short names.
>
> So, I guess this feature is useful (it's useful to me, just so I install
> the correct free flash package). I'm guessing it's mostly trivial to get
> this information from the metadata, and so wouldn't be too hard to add.
> Correct me if I'm wrong. Comments?

It will cause no problem for us, as you said, our metadata provides that 
information, so PiSi backend can start to use as soon as you added that 
filter to PK :).

Cheers