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Andrea Kao updated BROOKLYN-593:
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Comment: was deleted
(was: Here is a link to the related PR:
https://github.com/apache/brooklyn/pull/15)
> GitHub doesn't recognize Apache Brooklyn license
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>
> Key: BROOKLYN-593
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BROOKLYN-593
> Project: Brooklyn
> Issue Type: Documentation
> Reporter: Andrea Kao
> Priority: Minor
>
> Hello!
> GitHub uses a library called Licensee to identify a project's license type.
> It shows this information in the status bar and via the API if it can
> unambiguously identify the license. Licensee is currently unable to recognize
> Apache Brooklyn's license type.
> This is in part due to the fact that the LICENSE file doesn't contain the
> _full_ text of the Apache license (i.e., it is missing the Appendix at the
> end of the license).
> A simple fix might involve the following steps:
> * restoring the Appendix to the end of the Apache license text in the
> LICENSE file
> * removing all text preceding the beginning of the license text in the
> LICENSE file
> * updating the README to include a "License" section, which would store the
> text that was removed from the beginning of the LICENSE file. This could read
> as follows:
> {noformat}
> ### License
> This software is distributed under the Apache License, version 2.0, copyright
> (c) The Apache Software Foundation and contributors. Please see the LICENSE
> file for (1) the full text of the Apache License, followed by (2) notices for
> bundled software and (3) licenses for bundled software.
> {noformat}
> (For repositories licensed with the Apache License, Licensee is unable to
> detect the correct license type unless the LICENSE file begins with the full
> text of the Apache license.)
> For comparison purposes, here is the output that I get when I run Licensee
> locally on Apache Brooklyn's remote repo:
> {noformat}
> $ licensee detect https://github.com/apache/brooklyn
> License: Other
> Matched files: LICENSE
> LICENSE:
> Content hash: 5717ab47e05db42d81bdfc383a1ae6b9a53b67f4
> License: Other
> Closest licenses:
> Apache-2.0 similarity: 74.91%
> ECL-2.0 similarity: 73.37%
> EPL-2.0 similarity: 48.59%
> {noformat}
> And here is the output that I get when I run Licensee on my local Apache
> Brooklyn clone (in which I have made the changes listed above):
> {noformat}
> $ licensee detect ../brooklyn/
> License: Apache License 2.0
> Matched files: LICENSE, README.md
> LICENSE:
> Content hash: 4f3dee90d3ff02d566b067c25982c2bfd7e360c1
> Confidence: 100.00%
> Matcher: Licensee::Matchers::Exact
> License: Apache License 2.0
> README.md:
> Content hash: b77b21d0aa303586e2f6ccc1dd72133caad05ac1
> Confidence: 90.00%
> Matcher: Licensee::Matchers::Reference
> License: Apache License 2.0
> Closest licenses:
> WTFPL similarity: 23.88%
> Zlib similarity: 19.05%
> MS-PL similarity: 18.89%
> {noformat}
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