When you examine not installed package with aptitude or apt-get, package
information doesn't contain package's license.
With 'Section' item you can clarify whether package is contributed or
non-free, but a separated 'License' item would be eligible in terms of
Debian way.

Alix.

Hi,

Adding new fields in the Packages file(s) is something to be done by
the ftp-masters, so if you really want that, reassign to "ftp.debian.org"
(pseudo-)package, but i don't see what this field should indicate:

As you already said, the "freeness-level" is already in the section,
for most packages you can't be more specific than that in a single field
as very few packages really have only one single license.

So you want to look at the copyright file of the package [0] and be happy
about DEP5 [1]. What i could imagine is a commandline interface
similar to 'apt-get changelog' for copyright, through…
(and i am treating this bugreport as requesting this for now)


Best regards

David Kalnischkies

[0] /usr/share/doc/pkg/copyright if 'pkg' is installed or online at
http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/{main,contrib/nonfree}/{first-letter-of-srcpkg}/{srcpkg}/current/copyright
[1] http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/