Thanks for answering this email Raino. You are right on the mark. Mary
> -----Original Message----- > From: fossology-boun...@fossology.org [mailto:fossology- > boun...@fossology.org] On Behalf Of Raino Lintulampi > Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 5:25 AM > To: Dabrowski, Ivo > Cc: fossology@fossology.org > Subject: Re: [FOSSology] NOMOS - how to find differences compared to > license templates? > > Hi Ivo, > > How can I find additions or deletions in the source code license > texts > > compared to the stored license templates using NOMOS? For example, if > there > > is an additional "not" included in legally critical places? As stated > on > > your "how to interpret" site under "Percent of Match", verification > should > > be possible. > > You can't. Nomos does not use templates but short text strings > from licenses. See http://www.fossology.org/nomos for further > information. > > What could be done with nomos is similar approach as is used > with copyright agent. With copyright agent you can view the > identified text string location in the file. In rare cases that kind of > feature would have helped when it has been unclear why nomos > claimed the file to have f.ex. GPL license. (GPL reference text > has been in the middle or end of the file). But that would not tell > how the text in file differs from the reference license text. > > My experience is that nomos is working very well. Old bsam results > are left in database so if you have doubt you can make comparison > with bsam results and nomos results. > > Best regards > Raino > > > > Thank you and best regards > > > > Ivo Dabrowski > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > fossology mailing list > > fossology@fossology.org > > http://fossology.org/mailman/listinfo/fossology > > > > > _______________________________________________ > fossology mailing list > fossology@fossology.org > http://fossology.org/mailman/listinfo/fossology _______________________________________________ fossology mailing list fossology@fossology.org http://fossology.org/mailman/listinfo/fossology
