[arch-general] Distribution license of package information on the website?

[Morgan Adamiec]

On 29 May 2018 at 12:23, Eli Schwartz via arch-general
<arch-general at archlinux.org> wrote:
> On 05/29/2018 07:19 AM, Morgan Adamiec via arch-general wrote:
>> On 29 May 2018 at 08:57, Hong Xu <hong at topbug.net> wrote:
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> I'm interested in collecting the metadata of all packages. I intend to
>>> do this by crawling the ArchLinux package listing pages (let me know if
>>> there is a better way!). However, on the package listing pages [1,2], I
>>> do not see any license information regarding how one can use these
>>> metadata. Can someone help me here? Thanks!
>>>
>>> [1]: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/
>>> [2]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/
>>>
>>>
>>> Hong
>>>
>>
>> There are web interfaces for the main repositories and the AUR.
>>
>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AurJson
>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Official_repositories_web_interface
>
> This is not a practical "How can I programmatically do this" but a
> legalistic "under what copyright permissions am I permitted to do this".
>
> --
> Eli Schwartz
> Bug Wrangler and Trusted User
>

Oh yeah, my mistake. That's an interesting topic actually thanks.