Re: [gNewSense-users] http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00133

[Chris Andrew]

Anything that will cut down the work will be a great help.

If formatting of PFV/KFV records need to be amended to make automaed
checking easier, then please let the list (or myself) know.

Thanks for looking into this.

Cheers,

Chris.

On 12/02/2008, Karl Goetz <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 18:36 -0500, Bake Timmons wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm planning to setup fossology [1] on my server at home to look at how
> > > it will help us (because it has the potential to help a lot).
> > >
> > > [1] http://fossology.org
> > > kk
> >
> > I have been running fossology on my laptop since last night on the
> > linux-source-2.6.15.tar.bz2 file.  Beware--it loves CPU.
>
> cool!
> i was aware of its CPU addiction - hence offloading to
> not-my-primary-hardware ;)
>
> >
> > Using the web interface, one cool thing I see is that partial
> > results can be inspected, e.g.:
> >
> > Count License
> > 170   LGPL 2.0 reference
> > 63    GPLv2 reference 3
> > 49    Adaptive 1.0
> > 8     LGPL 2.1 reference
> > 3     GPLv2 reference 5
> > 2     GPL from FSF reference 2
> > 2     McKornik Jr. Public License
> > 1     LGPL GNU C Library variant
> > 1     BSD new short
> > 1     FreeBSD
> > 1     Apache Software License 1.0
> >
> >
> > The license names here are hyperlinks to the files guessed to be
> > covered by that license.  I look forward to playing with the CLI
> > interface.
>
> imagine running it on the archive - ouch! still. thats what amd64's to
> to much ram are for:)
> kk
>
> >
> > Perhaps an obvious use of fossology is as an easy way to identify
> > "nonstandard" licenses which can then be doublechecked, including how
> > they interact with the whole.  Another use is as a major improvement to
> > documenting the PFV results.
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