ViewLicense - A script to easily read the licenses for a pkg

[codergeek42]

It's my birthday today () so I figured I'd give the Gentoo community (and other F/OSS users that visit this forum) a quick and easy way to view the specific licenses for a package.

I'm an advocate of F/OSS, so I don't like installing non-Free software unless I need to (I don't have the nVidia drivers and win32codecs installed). Many times I would find myself running various grep, awk, and sed commands to extract the LICENSE part of an ebuild and it's inherited eclass files, then open the resulting licenses in /usr/portage/licenses by hand. Well, I decided it would be quicker to write a small shell script to handle this and automate that LICENSE-reading process.

EDIT (2007-04-26): Ebuild no longer available. (I haven't used the peter.ramshacklestudios.com domain in over a year; sorry for not updating this...). I probably still have it somewhere if anyone is interested...

EDIT: Added ~amd64 to the KEYWORDS thanks to xerxian on IRC/#otw.

EDIT: Modified URI.

Then you can run "viewlicense.sh <package>" to view the various license(s) for a given package. These are My First Longer-Than-A-Few-Lines Shell Script(tm) and My First Ebuild(tm), so I probably messed up somewhere, but so far as I can tell things seem to work just fine. For example:

[FonderiaDigitale]

fine
please check the if-else cycle where it ask to see the license, it need and escape sequence if no response is given.

oh btw, i've reported this in the italian forum
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[codergeek42]

[brenden]

I agree.