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

[Karl Goetz]

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.
-- 
Karl Goetz <address@hidden>

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