Here's my vote, too. BSAM as used in older versions of FOSSology reveals 
matches (and derivations) easily.

Ivo


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Von: fossology-boun...@fossology.org [mailto:fossology-boun...@fossology.org] 
Im Auftrag von Bob Gobeille
Gesendet: Freitag, 29. Juli 2011 01:27
An: Dave McLoughlin
Cc: fossology@fossology.org
Betreff: Re: [FOSSology] License highlighting (Bob Gobeille)

Oh - multiple pages.   That is painful.

Thanks for voting Dave.

Bob Gobeille


On Jul 28, 2011, at 4:43 PM, Dave McLoughlin wrote:

> I'll cast my vote, highlighting is very important to us.  We spend a lot of
> time searching, scrolling and manually scanning contents to find a match
> when there's no highlighting.
> 
> It's extremely painful when the contents are displayed across multiple
> pages.
> 
> Dave
> 
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>> From: Bob Gobeille <bob.gobei...@hp.com>
>> Subject: Re: [FOSSology] License highlighting
>> To: Mader Volker (AA-DGP/ESD2) <volker.ma...@de.bosch.com>
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>> Hello Volker,
>> The database table license_file is where nomos records what license matched 
>> in
>> what file.  There are columns for where in the file the match occurred, but
>> they are not currently populated by nomos.
>> 
>> Would anyone else like to vote on how important highlighting the license 
>> match
>> is?
>> 
>> Bob Gobeille
>> 
>> 
>> On Jul 27, 2011, at 2:49 AM, Mader Volker (AA-DGP/ESD2) wrote:
>> 
>>> yes, this is exactly what would be most useful. I think it is very important
>>> to understand why a license was detected esp. for deciding on false
>>> positives. Certainly the signature match is the interesting information
>>> there.
>>> My plan: In combination with the tags feature to mark false positives or 
>>> give
>>> approval to special file/license pair... it can be used to manage the
>>> findings more properly.
>>> 
>>> So of course from my perspective this is quite important compared to most
>>> other items ;-)
>>> 
>>> Does nomos store the match information in the DB already? Could we "just" 
>>> use
>>> some query in the php to display it?
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