[packagekit] Free and non-free filter

[Richard Hughes]

On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 16:57 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> Wouldn't it be a lot easier to do the checking on the repository level?
> I mean, distributions that care about these things are normally pretty
> good at ensuring compliance and sorting packages into the proper
> repositories. Notably rpm-fusion will have two repositories [1] that
> AFAICT maps to Debian's non-us and non-free. 

I'm not sure all repos are that militant about licences - I've seen
repos with non-free and free stuff in the same entry. It's not a bad
idea tho. Maybe a backend could do the "is free?" filter based on the
repo metadata (or name, ick ick ick).

> You can still display the license per package in the UI; sounds like
> PackageKit could be a useful tool for compliance checking.

Sure.

Richard.