How to see nonfree packages?

Rorschach · 2009-03-03 11:25:09

Hi,
is there any possibility to see if a package is released under a nonfree licence like the ati-fglrx driver or so?

In contrast to other distributions arch has no nonfree repository. But I also couldn't find some flag or something like that telling me that a package is not free.

Army · 2009-03-03 11:38:05

$  pacman -Qi flashplugin | grep Licenses
Licenses       : custom

This might be a starting point for a script

Rorschach · 2009-03-03 17:17:45

Thanks for the hint! I wrote a little script to give the infos:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
$VERBOSE=true

puts
puts '            nonfree,unknown or insufficent tagged packages'
puts


free_licences = ['GPL','LGPL','GPL2','LGPL2','GPL3','LGPL3','MIT','BSD','MPL','FDL','WTFPL','zlib','PerlArtistic','vim','ISC']

packagelist = %x[pacman -Qqe].split("\n")

count = 0
packagelist.each do |package|
    package_hash={:name=>'',:licence=>''}
    nonfree = false
    %x[pacman -Qi #{package}].each_line do |line|
        case line
            when /^Name\s+:\s/:     package_hash[:name] = $'.chomp.rstrip 
            when /^Li\w+\s+:\s/ 
                package_hash[:licence] = $'.chomp.rstrip
                licences = package_hash[:licence].split.map {|x| x.split('/')}
                licences.flatten.each do |lic|
                    nonfree = true if not free_licences.include?(lic.sub(/^custom:/,'').chomp.rstrip)
                end
        end
    end
    if nonfree == true
        count+=1
        printf(" %s",package_hash[:name])
        0.upto(20-package_hash[:name].length) {printf(' ')}
        printf("%s\n",package_hash[:licence])
    end
end
puts
puts "number of all installed packages     : #{packagelist.size}"
puts "number of eventually nonfree packages: #{count} (#{count*100/packagelist.size}%)"

It seems that many packages are insufficent tagged:

nonfree,unknown or insufficent tagged packages

 artwiz-fonts         Nichts
 bzip2                custom
 catalyst             custom
 codecs               Nichts
 conky                custom
 db                   custom
 e17-icons            Unknown
 elitaire-svn         custom
 erlang               custom
 eterm                custom
 ewl-svn              custom
 file                 custom
 flashplugin          custom
 flex                 custom
 gen-init-cpio        custom:none
 gnuplot              custom
 iwlwifi-3945-ucode   custom
 licenses             custom:none
 mplayer-all-skins    unknown
 openssh              custom
 popt                 custom
 pwgen                Nichts
 shadow               custom
 strace               custom
 sudo                 custom
 tango-icon-theme     CCPL-Attribution-ShareAlike-2.5
 tcp_wrappers         custom
 ttf-dejavu           custom
 ttf-ms-fonts         custom:microsoft
 tvbrowser            GPL  LGPL  BSD  CCPL:by-sa  APACHE
 ubuntulooks          Nichts
 unrar                custom
 unzip                custom
 virtualbox-ose       GPL  custom
 xf86-input-evdev     custom
 xf86-input-keyboard  custom
 xf86-input-mouse     custom
 xf86-input-synaptics custom
 xf86-video-vesa      custom
 xorg-fonts-100dpi    Nichts
 xorg-fonts-75dpi     Nichts
 xorg-res-utils       Nichts
 xorg-server          custom
 xorg-twm             Nichts
 xterm                Nichts
 zsh                  custom

number of all installed packages     : 271
number of eventually nonfree packages: 46 (17%)

What do you guys think about giving nonfree packages a special tag/mark to recognize them?

Last edited by Rorschach (2009-03-03 17:18:48)

rson451 · 2009-03-03 17:20:42

This has been discussed before, I can't remember if here or on the MLs. You may want to start with a search to see what the response was, if I could remember I'd tell you.

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#1 2009-03-03 11:25:09

How to see nonfree packages?

#2 2009-03-03 11:38:05

Re: How to see nonfree packages?

#3 2009-03-03 17:17:45

Re: How to see nonfree packages?

#4 2009-03-03 17:20:42

Re: How to see nonfree packages?

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