Hello All, Thanks to all those who responded. I started again with a new installation. I created a directory under /usr/local/share/fossology/agents/licenses with the Company name. I then copied the Adobe and Adobe.meta files from the Adobe folder to the folder I created. I renamed them to Company and Company.meta. Next, I opened the Company file in a text editor and copied the Company's license into there and saved it. I opened the Company.meta file in a text editor, modified the URL, and saved it. There were no files that ended in a ~ in the new directory. I only saw two files there. After executing the command /usr/local/bin/fossinit /usr/local/share/fossology/agents/licenses, I noticed there were two Canonical names added in the "Manage License Terms" page, they were Company and Adobe~. The Adobe~ contained the license which I added. I went to upload a license and it found it associated with the Adobe~ group. It seems that I am not creating the license templates correctly. What is the correct way of creating these files, can I copy it from another license directory and modify it using a text editor or is there some tool I need to use to generate these files? Thanks
--- On Wed, 6/3/09, Mark Donohoe <[email protected]> wrote: From: Mark Donohoe <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [FOSSology] FW: Identifying new license in Fossology To: "Laser, Mary" <[email protected]> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, June 3, 2009, 8:35 PM Laser, Mary wrote: Folks, As far as the file with ~ at the end. That's an emacs back up file. I don't know if other editors use a name like that or not. Even if you just opened a file with emacs didn't make any changes, there may still be a backup file. Hi, Thanks for the detailed description! I think the instructions are slightly off. You need to create a directory (not a file) in /usr/local/share/fossology/agents/licenses/ for your new template. The directory name should be meaningful. For instance, all Adobe license are under the directory Adobe, like this: la...@myhost:/usr/share/fossology/agents/licenses$ ls -l Adobe/ total 24 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1883 2009-05-08 17:22 Adobe -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 599 2009-05-08 17:22 Adobe AFM short -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12 2009-05-08 17:22 Adobe AFM short.meta -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 84 2009-05-08 17:22 Adobe.meta -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 498 2009-05-08 17:22 Adobe short -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 84 2009-05-08 17:22 Adobe short.meta This example contains 3 license templates and their corresponding .meta files. When the license analysis matches text to a template, the license identification is determined by the file name with the closest matching text. Based upon what you describe below, I think you did the right thing - despite the poor instructions! I don't know why the License group shows <Company Name> and <Company Name>~.. Did you ever delete the original <Company Name> you added to the license group BEFORE you created a license template? If not, that could be the cause. Please try deleting <Company Name>~. Also, when you get a template match, there should be a "ref" link to click on that displays the reference template used to determine the match. Please try clicking on that and tell me the result. There should be a pathname corresponding to the path where your template lives. Thanks, Mary From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 9:19 AM To: [email protected]; Laser, Mary Subject: Re: [FOSSology] FW: Identifying new license in Fossology Thank you for your response. I tried to follow the instructions below that were documented to add a license template: Place your file under /usr/local/share/fossology/agents/licenses/. Run 'sudo fossinit'. The ”…” sequence indicates that the licenses are being installed. I created a directory under /usr/local/share/fossology/agents/licenses/ called <Company Name>. I noticed the files under the other directories containing the licenses were not just text files, but a different format. I copied two files from a different directory, it included the file that included the license and the .meta file to the directory I created. I then renamed the files to <Company Name> and <Company Name>.meta. I updated the file <Company Name> to contain our license. I then executed the following command: /usr/local/bin/fossinit /usr/local/share/fossology/agents/licenses/ The command completed successfully, but when I went to the "Manage License Terms" Page, it showed the Canonical name twice, once as <Company Name> and once as <Company Name>~. I then uploaded a file that contained the license and the result was it found a license of type license, not <Company Name>. It seems that I'm not creating the license template correctly. Could someone please provide details on how to properly create a license template under /usr/local/share/fossology/agents/licenses that has the same file type as the others. Thank You --- On Tue, 6/2/09, Laser, Mary <[email protected]> wrote: From: Laser, Mary <[email protected]> Subject: [FOSSology] FW: Identifying new license in Fossology To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, June 2, 2009, 4:08 PM Oops! forgot to cc the list. From: Laser, Mary Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 1:08 PM To: '[email protected]' Subject: RE: [FOSSology] Identifying new license in Fossology If you are trying to add an entire license vs.. a phrase, you should follow the directions for adding a license template. License Terms are used to "fine tune" the results of an identified license. For instance, if a GPL v2 license is identified as GPL with unknown version, the section of identified license text will be compared against License Terms to pinpoint the exact license (GPL v2). >From what you've described, the license cannot be identified (because there is >no template). Therefore, there is no license text to compare against the >License Terms. HTH, Mary From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 11:52 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [FOSSology] Identifying new license in Fossology Hello, I am trying to identify a new license in Fossology. I am using the "Manage License Terms" page through the UI to do this but am having some difficulty. I created a new Canonical name called "Company Name" and created a new term that was specific to that group. The term was the following: "Copyright Company Name". I then did an Upload from a URL which contained a license file that contained that term. However, the result was it did not find the license. What's strange is when I add the term "proprietary" to the group, it recognizes it, but any other phrase, it does not recognize. Should I be using the UI to identify a new license or should I follow the instructions on the page "How to Add a License Template or License Phrase and Re-Analyze Licenses" in the documenation to do this? The documentation says it requires re-running the build and modifying the database.. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks -- Mark Donohoe MOST/OSTT, Cupertino CA. fossology.org
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