Hi Mohamed,

For your case, I am afraid that FOSSology cannot find the license type from the 
binary file.

For the header files, you scan them to find the license type.

-Larry

From: Mohamed Fazil [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 12:14 PM
To: Shi, Yao-Bin (Larry, Open Source Program Office)
Cc: Gobeille, Robert; Stangel, Dan; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [FOSSology] Help needed to installFOSSology Tool

Hi Larry,

Previously i did scanning for source codes which also have license files. Now i 
have got the binary files(Let say .exe file) from third party vendor for the 
same. This binary file is a compiled form of the source code. Since it is a 
compiled one, it has only header files. It will not have any license files. So 
it might difficult to find the license types using FOSSology tool. So my 
question was, if i include the license files while compiling the source code 
and created the binary file for the same.Now will FOSSology tool be able to 
find the license type from the binary file?

Regards,
Mohamed Fazil

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Shi, Yao-Bin (Larry, Open Source Program 
Office) <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi Mohamed,

FOSSology look all the scanned files as text files.
Usually fossology cannot get give you the correct license report when scanning 
binary files, because fossology cannot find license signatures to match.
That  is why usually you have to scan the source code or license files of the 
scanned project.
I  do not understand your question.
What do you mean 'have included the license files in the compiled binary files'?

-Larry

From: Mohamed Fazil 
[mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>]
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 10:11 AM
To: Gobeille, Robert
Cc: Shi, Yao-Bin (Larry, Open Source Program Office); Stangel, Dan; 
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>

Subject: Re: [FOSSology] Help needed to installFOSSology Tool

Hi Bob,

FOSSology scans binary files means i should have included the license files in 
the compiled binary files?

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:11 AM, Gobeille, Robert 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi Mohamed,
FOSSology scans binary files for english text that matches our license 
signatures.
There is no size limit if you use Upload from Server or Upload from URL.
The max upload size for "upload from file" is specified in php.ini (e.g. 
/etc/php5/apache2/php.ini) in variable post_max_size (or maybe 
upload_max_filesize).

Bob Gobeille

On Nov 20, 2012, at 4:51 AM, Mohamed Fazil 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
 wrote:

Hi all,

Thanks for your support.

I have come up with one more issue now. Need your clarification over this.

Previously i had run FOSSology tool to scan source files.
Now i have got a couple of compiled binary files from third party vendor that 
too with the size approx 2GB.

Will fossology tool be able to scan binary files and produce corresponding 
output as like it scans and produces report for source codes files.?

And also I would like to know the maximum upload size of files.


Thanks in Advance.


Regards,
Mohamed Fazil





On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Shi, Yao-Bin (Larry, Open Source Program 
Office) <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi Mohamed,

You have to upload again. Then you will find 2 packages which have the same 
name, you can just click on the 2nd package to see the new report.

Process:

1.      Assuming your fist uploaded package is abc.zip under /Software 
repository/ xyz.zip (here you said your current folder is xyz.zip), on your 
local machine, you have to extract this package locally , then add more files, 
then compact them to abc.zip again.

2.      Upload abc.zip to  to /Software repository/ xyz.zip to scan the 2nd 
time.

3.      After the scanning is done, under folder /Software repository/ xyz.zip, 
you will find 2 abc.zip, click on the newer abc.zip to get the report, this 
report is what you want. Do not worry, though there are 2 xyz.zip, when 
fossology scanning 2nd abc.zip, fossology do not scanning the same files that 
in the 1st abc.zip.

4.      Also, you can compare these 2 same package to diff, get the differences 
between these 2 packages on the browse page.

Hope it helps. Anything please let me know.

-Larry

From: 
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
 
[mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>]
 On Behalf Of Mohamed Fazil
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2012 2:07 PM
To: Gobeille, Robert; Stangel, Dan

Cc: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [FOSSology] Help needed to installFOSSology Tool


Hi Robert,

Already i have added a folder to the Software repository named xyz.zip. Now i 
want to add two new files to the xyz.zip. How Can i add two more files to the 
repository inside the folder xyz.zip via UI. Is it possible? Or I should 
externally add that two new files to the xyz.zip folder and upload to the 
software repository? But already I have a xyz.zip folder in the repository. 
Even though it exists, What will happen if i add the same folder to the 
repository. Will it do full scan of the folder? or the particular two new 
files?. Could you please tell me procedure for doing like this??


Regards
Mohamed Fazil

On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 10:01 PM, Gobeille, Robert 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi Mohamed,
Yes fossology has this functionality.  It will not rescan a file it has already 
scanned.

Bob Gobeille

On Nov 7, 2012, at 9:27 AM, Mohamed Fazil 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
 wrote:

Hi Robert,

I have one more query on the functionality of FOSSology tool.
Lets take an example. I have a folder called SourceCode.zip which has some 
packages and binary files.
I am using the tool for software analysis. It has completely analyzed. Now i am 
adding two more new files to the SourceCode and performing the analysis using 
FOSSology. Will it analyze the complete SourceCode or only the two new added 
files(Because complete source code analysis will take more time or if it is 
analyzing only two newly added files then it is time consumption). Does 
FOSSology have any such functionality?



Thanks and Regards
Mohamed Fazil

On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Gobeille, Robert 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi Mohamed,
Sorry for being unclear.  There is no version of FOSSology with an SPDX output 
option.  I don't know what Matt's schedule is for creating this.  Matt?

Bob Gobeille

On Nov 6, 2012, at 10:42 PM, Mohamed Fazil 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
 wrote:

Thanks Robert.

In the last mail you said, "there is no SPDX output in the latest version of 
fossology". It means any other older version has this SPDX output option? If 
so, could please say which version it is and how long it takes time to create 
SPDX plugin for latest version of fossology.


Thanks and Regards,
Mohamed Fazil

On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 1:59 AM, Gobeille, Robert 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi Mohamed,
There is no SPDX output in the latest version of fossology.  However, Matt 
Germonprez and Liang Cao at the University of Nebraska - Omaha are working on a 
future SPDX plugin.

Bob Gobeille


On Nov 6, 2012, at 6:45 AM, Mohamed Fazil 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
 wrote:

Hi all,

Thanks for your support and special thanks to Bob, Dan and larry

I have one more doubt.

I have uploaded some files and got the result as expected. I had tried to save 
the output and it is saved as .txt file.
I am expecting the output file in .spdx format. Will it possible to get in 
.spdx format using fossology. If so, could you please help me sorting out this 
query.

I am very much thankful if anyone helps me sort out this query. My work will be 
completed by this :-)

Thanks in Advance


Regards,
Mohamed Fazil
+91-9900584136<tel:%2B91-9900584136>


On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Shi, Yao-Bin (Larry, Open Source Program 
Office) <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi Mohamed,

Congratulations. You can upload something to try.
Anything please tell me.

-Larry

From: Mohamed Fazil 
[mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>]
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2012 2:53 PM
To: Shi, Yao-Bin (Larry, Open Source Program Office)
Cc: Stangel, Dan; [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>

Subject: Re: [FOSSology] Help needed to installFOSSology Tool


Thanks Larry.

Installation is fine. I can able to access GUI and I am getting the status 
message as Status of the scheduler is successful.

I hope now it works fine.

Let me try out to use the fossology tool now. If I get any doubts, I will come 
up with my queries.



Thanks and Regards,
Mohamed Fazil

On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Shi, Yao-Bin (Larry, Open Source Program 
Office) <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi Mohamed,

I am sorry that the link 
www.fossology.org/projects/fossology/wiki/Install_2_1<http://www.fossology.org/projects/fossology/wiki/Install_2_1>
 are the steps for source installation.
I think you installed FOSSology from packcage, right? If yes, you do not have 
to do more configurations, please ignore 
www.fossology.org/projects/fossology/wiki/Install_2_1<http://www.fossology.org/projects/fossology/wiki/Install_2_1>

Just checking the below things.

1.       Can you access fossolgy from GUI  Via  
http://HOSTNAME/repo/<http://hostname/repo/> ?  please replace HOSTNAME with 
your real hostname.

If cannot, please

sudo cp  /usr/etc/fossology/conf/fo-apache.conf /etc/apache2/conf.d/, then

sudo  /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

try to access fossolgy from GUI again.

2.       Is the scheduler running?

On GUI, Login with fossy/fossy, then

click on [Admin]-->[Scheduler] menu, on the Scheduler Administration page, 
click on Submit,

you will get the states msg on the top of this page.

If the scheduler is not running.

On cli, please run

sudo /etc/init.d/fossology start

if you still can not start the scheduler, please grab the error msg 
/var/log/fossology/fossology.log to me


Hope it helps.
-Larry

From: 
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
 
[mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>]
 On Behalf Of Mohamed Fazil
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2012 1:53 PM
To: Stangel, Dan

Cc: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [FOSSology] Help needed to installFOSSology Tool

Hi Dan,


Thanks a lot for your help.

But still i need your help and i need to get clarified for few queries.

Bob Gobeille has given me the link( 
www.fossology.org/projects/fossology/wiki/Install_2_1<http://www.fossology.org/projects/fossology/wiki/Install_2_1>
 ) for installation steps.
First i want know these configuration steps are mandatory to use fossology tool.
I tried those steps. Below are the issues which i faced in post installation.

Section 1 - Short Installation Instructions



# utils/fo-cleanold    -->   Where will I get fo-cleanold script. utils folder 
is not available.
# utils/fo-installdeps -->   Where will I get fo-cleanold script. utils folder 
is not available.

3rd step had run properly(via root user)


















3. Adjust the kernel shmmax (described in detail in section 2.1.3)

   # echo 512000000 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax

   # echo "kernel.shmmax=512000000" >> /etc/sysctl.conf

Do you have any comments to be taken care while configuring PostgreSQL,PHP and 
Apache as mentioned in the link.

2.2.2 Automated Post-Installation


















/usr/local/lib/fossology/fo-postinstall  --> This script is not 
available(fossology folder itself not available over there).




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