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Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Re: approving projects


From: Sylvain Beucler
Subject: Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Re: approving projects
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 22:09:10 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)

Hi,

On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 01:40:03PM +0200, hiren wrote:
> I'm a GNU/Linux system admin, have a few years experience in that, work
> with scripting languages like perl often. A free software fan as well.

Same here, welcome :)


> > > any information will be useful, thanks again.
> > 
> > There's no progress yet.
> > 
> > Leo registered this project a few days ago:
> >   http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/chkpkglic
> > but it's currently empty.
> > 
> > Any help welcome :)
> > 
> 
> thanks for the info, I've emailed Leo asking what the status/plan is.
> 
> as per that thread, I took a brief look at fossology, seems like it does
> more than just license checks, but does each one via what it calls
> "agents". even if we end up going with something else, looks like we
> could take the ideas from the license agent, as it already looks to be
> doing the hard work of checking each file and gathering possible
> licenses that a project might involve.

Currently I don't think fossology is really suited for this particular
job.

More at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg01912.html


> I can't seem to find the checklicense script from debian devscripts, I
> run ubuntu myself, have downloaded and checked the devscripts package,
> didn't see anything related to a license check script.

Well check:
http://packages.debian.org/sid/devscripts
(it's mentioned in the package description)

It's a simple script but it does the job correctly enough.

-- 
Sylvain




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