Hi Larry,

My intention with this message was just getting a feeling for the interest in 
the contribution of such an improvement.

The problem that we see is that the signatures don't cover the whole licenses 
(in case of long licenses even less that 10% of the text). That's why we say, 
that Nomos gives only "hints to licenses". If Nomos findings are accepted 
without review, then an assumption is being taken: the whole license text is 
there although only a part of it has been found. This assumption will be true 
in most of the cases, but now always. Since we want to automate the posterior 
processing of the findings, we require more security on the presence of a 
reported license.

We wouldn't like to misuse the current Nomos implementation exploding 
signatures for full license matching because of performance reasons. We are 
creating a new agent for this task.

I planned to give a draft of the implementation we are already working on in 
the "developers" list. Is it right for you?

Regards,
   Silvano

-----Original Message-----
From: Shi, Yao-Bin (Larry, GBU-HPSW, Cloud and OS) [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Montag, 13. Januar 2014 16:25
To: Cirujano Cuesta, Silvano; [email protected]
Subject: RE: Improve findings accuracy

> The solution that we have in mind is to use the license texts that are
[larry] for me, that means we should give a more concrete(accurate) signature 
to match, right?
Certainly if the signature is one license's whole text, that is almost 
impossible to match any licenses in the scanning files.
More discussion is needed. 
> stored in licenseref.sql to check if the whole text can be found (what 
> we call a 100%-match).
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