On 1/7/21 2:49 PM, Richard Stallman <r...@gnu.org> wrote: > I see two ways we could possibly manage to use repology.org in the > Free World. > > * Find a way to distinguish free from nonfree packages. I see two > ideas One is to snarf the lists of free packages from Debian and > Parabola. Another is to see if free packages list a license that > shows they are free. You might have other ideas. >
Repology data can easily be found on Wikidata [1] but I wonder if Repology can locate and merge their entries on Wikidata or if it was done manually. > > Does anyone have another idea? Repology is a software directory but we already have such tool with the Free Software Directory! [1][2] Wikidata can natively distinguish free from nonfree packages. So one way is to add all Guix variable names into Wikidata [3] and find a way to link the Wikidata properties with the FSD entries… Then Emacs can use the Mediawiki API to query the fetched data. Christophe [1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6931 [2] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2537 [3] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6765
