Matt, I hope you don't mind me bringing you into a public mailing list. But could you answer Marion and others interested in your SPDX plugin? Note that Marion also volunteered to test it.
Thanks, Bob Gobeille On Oct 17, 2012, at 2:25 AM, "Deveaud, Marion" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Robert, > > Thanks a lot for the update regarding the features front. > > I'm very excited about the SPDX plugin, could you give us an overview of it's > functionalities? > Don't hesitate to contact me if you need some testers for this feature, we > would really like to help FOSSology improve in this direction. > > With kind Regards, > -Marion Deveaud- > >> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- >> Von: Gobeille, Robert [mailto:[email protected]] >> Gesendet: Dienstag, 16. Oktober 2012 22:50 >> An: Deveaud, Marion >> Cc: [email protected] >> Betreff: Re: [FOSSology] FOSSology + Antelink Reporter >> >> Hello Marion, >> Right now we are just trying to gauge the interest in a >> FOSSology - Antepedia plugin. So we haven't talked about >> information exchange formats. >> >> Highlighting license signatures is something I'd dearly love >> to have. Unfortunately, the way the code was written makes >> this difficult. Another thing I'd like to have is a way to >> add signatures that doesn't require recompiling the code and >> makes it easy for users to build a private signature library. >> This is also difficult with the current code. Hearing from >> users is what we need to raise the priority of doing this. >> >> You are right that we are planning on doing something with >> SPDX. In 2.2.0 we plan to synchronize our license names with >> SPDX and add licenses in SPDX that are not in FOSSology. If >> making small changes to the license names is going to cause >> any grief, I sure hope people speak up. Also on the SPDX >> front, our friends at the University of Nebraska, Omaha are >> currently working on an SPDX plugin (thank you Matt >> Germonprez and Liang Cao!). >> >> Thank you so much for your input! >> >> Bob Gobeille >> >> On Oct 16, 2012, at 1:22 PM, "Deveaud, Marion" >> <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Dear Robert, >>> >>> I think it is a good idea to integrate FOSSology into a >> bigger software analysis framework. The FOSSology plugin is a >> great benefit for Antepedia users working in companies where >> license compliance is of prime importance. Both projects will >> certainly profit a lot from each other. >>> What format is used to exchange information between >> FOSSology and Antepedia? >>> >>> Regarding what could be added to FOSSology, I think it >> would be very helpful to have the license signatures >> highlighted in the original source file. >>> A SPDX agent would also be a nice feature but you certainly >> already planed it in the roadmap. >>> >>> With Kind Regards, >>> -Marion Deveaud- >>> >>>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- >>>> Von: [email protected] >>>> [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von >>>> Gobeille, Robert >>>> Gesendet: Montag, 15. Oktober 2012 23:07 >>>> An: [email protected] >>>> Betreff: [FOSSology] FOSSology + Antelink Reporter >>>> >>>> What does everyone think about a FOSSology plugin for >>>> Antepedia Reporter? >>>> >>>> http://www.antelink.com/blog/antepedia-reporter-fossology-best >>>> -class-solutions-open-source-scanning-and-3rd-party-component- >>>> >>>> Antepedia is a commercial product but this would be an >>>> optional plugin. >>>> We've already written a FOSSology cli program that integrates >>>> with Antepedia SourceSquare and another that uses the >>>> Antepedia knowledge base. These identify (aka Discovery) >>>> open source projects in a FOSSology upload. >>>> >>>> Also, what would you like to see added to FOSSology? >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Bob Gobeille >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> fossology mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.fossology.org/mailman/listinfo/fossology >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> fossology mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.fossology.org/mailman/listinfo/fossology >> >> > _______________________________________________ > fossology mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fossology.org/mailman/listinfo/fossology _______________________________________________ fossology mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fossology.org/mailman/listinfo/fossology
