Hi Bob
Thank you for your reply.
This document
(http://www.inria.fr/content/download/6143/55776/version/2/file/Methodologie-d-analyse-IPR.pdf)
describes the followed methodology as well as how we use Fossology. You
can find real case at the end of the docuement. It is a little bit long
to read but it gives the context.
I answer directly in the text bellow.
Thank you very much
Best regads
Patrick
Le 13/05/2011 20:15, Bob Gobeille a écrit :
Hello Patrick,
On May 13, 2011, at 10:25 AM, Moreau Patrick wrote:
The licence tree function is no more avaliable. I send an email to
Bruno Cornec and he answered that " it was replaced by License
List". We are not fully satisfied by the Licence List. Indeed, we
appreciated to be able to double-clicked and to access directly to
the licence text in order to read it.
When you say that you want to read the license text, I think you mean
that you want to view the file that you uploaded.
We want to access to the uploaded file and also to its attached license.
That is you want to view the file that contains a license reference.
This is opposed to view the text of the actual license (e.g. the full
GPL license text). Is that right?
This is still possible to do that but it required to look for the
file ans it takes more time. It could become difficult to perform
analysis for important SW.
It sounds like you are using the license list as a license browser.
Why don't you use the license browser instead? Do you prefer the
format of all the files listed on a single page?
The licence browser is fine but it is not linked to the software
architecture (considering that a repositoty is organised according to
the SW architecture).
We have to clisk on "show" and to find the file.
The purpose of the License List is to give people a list of all file
paths and their licenses so they can do processing outside of
fossology. So for that, the links were unwanted. Putting them in
would be easy but I'd like to hear from more people who use this
function before deciding what to do. It would really help to know why
you use this instead of the license browser. If we need the links in
the License List, I'd be tempted to create a new web page where you
choose what you want in the list (like links or not), and if you want
to view or download it. I think that would satisfy the most people.
How much does the slowness of License List (or License Tree) bother you?
it's a blessing in disguise:-)
We have also one question. When it is written for example
"*LGPL_v2.1+"*, we understand that the licence is not fully
compliant. We don't know:
Why do you say that it is not compliant? To me "compliance" means
that you are complying with the license terms.
That is what I wanted to mean
LGPL, out of context, doesn't mean you are in or out of compliance.
I think I need more context around what you are trying to do.
- if all the licence texts are the same in this bucket
What is the definition of your bucket?
I want to say "basket", where the licence are gathered.
or
- if you put all the licence texts that are not fully compliant in it
and, in this case, we would have different differences that we would
have to detect.
Are you referring to the GPL demo bucket? If so, any license that has
"GPL" in it is put in that bucket. So LGPL, GPLv2, GPLv3, Affero GPL,
... all go in it. That bucket was only a sample to show how to create
a simple bucket. If you are really using this bucket, you might
consider other buckets to be more useful. For example, a copyleft
bucket, or a "source required" bucket. I've been wanting to create
those buckets for a while but haven't found the time to figure out
what should be in them.
Thank you for support.
Best regards
Patrick
PS: the new feature called Copyright/Email/URL Browser is very nice!
Thank you. :-)
Bob Gobeille
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