Hi DMG,

Yes, I think so. We can wrap ninka as a new agent to integrate it to fossology.

For the license:
Ninka is licensed under AGPL-3.0, Compatible with fossology's license
Splitter in ninka, is copyrighted, should get permission to use from Paul.
Comments in ninka, license under GPL-2.0+, Compatible with fossology's license.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:fossology-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of dmg
> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 8:26 AM
> To: Gobeille, Robert
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [FOSSology] Improve findings accuracy
> 
> Hi Bob,
> 
> let us assume that Ninka is GPLv2+ for a second. Would it be possible to
> integrate it to fossology as an agent?
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Gobeille, Robert <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Hi Silvano,
> >
> > We are always interested in making the license detection more useful and
> accurate.  There are two deficiencies in nomos.  One is that it doesn't
> give a confidence score (like the license is a 100% match), the other is
> that it doesn't show you where the differences are between the reference
> license and the license found.  If you look in the license_file table you
> will see fields for recording that information that nomos leaves blank.
> For a while now I've thought that the best solution might be to include
> Daniel German's Ninka scanner and use it to complement nomos.  Your agent
> would be another possibility.
> >
> > Yes, please continue this discussion and put your draft implementation
> on fossology-devel.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bob Gobeille
> >
> >
> > On Jan 13, 2014, at 7:34 AM, Cirujano Cuesta, Silvano <silvano.cirujano-
> [email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> 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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> 
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> --dmg
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