On Tue 05 Jul 2016 09:12:19 AM CEST Sandro Mani <manisandro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 05.07.2016 03:30, Dennis Gilmore wrote: >> Hey Sandro, >> >> What exactly does licensecheck do? and how is it different to the procject at >> https://sourceforge.net/projects/oslc/ I ask because I would like to have us >> implement something to check licensing when people upload tarballs to >> lookaside cache and report when licenses change. >> >> Dennis > Hi Dennis > licensecheck simply scans files for license headers and prints out the > detected license for each file (it is used by fedora-review for > instance). I suppose the perl library introduced with the new > licensecheck package offers some flexibility for third-party use. I > don't know oslc, but it doesn't seem to be actively maintained? Nah, I'd summarize it differently: licensecheck is a glorified grep oslc (and https://pagure.io/muster) use proper algorithms and a "database" of full license texts and headers to provide much better matching accuracy. -- Stanislav Ochotnicky <sochotnicky@xxxxxxxxxx> Business System Analyst, PnT DevOps - Brno PGP: 7B087241 Red Hat Inc. http://cz.redhat.com -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
