License finder?

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 05:19:18PM -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
> On 12/1/06, Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com> wrote:
> >> Any ideas?  Neither apt nor dpkg seem to have --what-license option :(
> >
> >Did you get this figured out?  I see the website has links like:
> >
> >   http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/liba/libalgorithm-
> >annotate-perl/libalgorithm-annotate-perl_0.10-1/libalgorithm-annotate-
> >perl.copyright
> >
> >that should be good enough to get your result.
> 
>  That gives you the full copyright file, which sometimes doesn't even
> include license terms (I've seen them reference other files).  Paul's
> looking for a concise list, with package to license listed, one per
> line.
> 
>  It appears the only way to get the result desired, with a Debian
> system, is to check each package manually, and make a list.  Or (and
> this sounded like the route Paul was going) pay someone else to do it.

Just to add fuel to the fire:

After we decided this last time, I did ask some friends of mine, and that 
was basically the answer I got from the most debian-knowledgable people I
have around.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
Web Developer