Bob,

Great list....

I'd like to add another to a future list.....  based on our recent need to 
aggregate data from multiple fossology databases....

For archive reference/sharing:  There are multiple barriers for collecting 
source code from a dozen locations/product teams (e.g. security, control, 
network issues, reporting, etc.) throughout a company.   But the product 
teams do not have a problem with sending an archive of their fossology 
database.   Unfortunately the database only contains the analysis and not 
the actual source code.   This is problematic when trying to create a 
company-wide inventory since the files cannot be interrogated to determine 
the license language within the context of the file, etc?. Understanding 
that the source code cannot be copied into the database it would be great 
for fossology to collect the text of the code/comments that surround 
(maybe 20 lines before and after the License statements/phrases) for each 
instance of a suspected license/phrase.   This would provide some context 
for the detected license.   And would not require the repository to be 
co-located with the database.  I believe this would provide more 
portability for sharing the results of the analysis without centralizing 
the source code collection.
Product teams would provide an archive (pg_dump) to a central inventory 
database and retain their source code at their location.   If further 
analysis is required then the original product team that owns the 
repository can run their local copy of fossology which is connected to 
their source code repository.

Thanks,

Tom Murray
Senior Systems Engineer

Eastman Kodak Company
2400 Mt. Read Blvd
Rochester, NY 14650-3020

[email protected]
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If you are interested in seeing what is being planned for the 1.2 
release, look at http://fossology.org/task_list

Now is the time to comment (if you have not already done so).

Bob Gobeille

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