Hi All, Right now, nomos cannot report license accurately especially when one file includes multiple popular licenses, create an accurate agent approach will be a good idea, let use work together to deliver this agent.
-Larry > -----Original Message----- > From: Gobeille, Robert > Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 2:52 AM > To: Cirujano Cuesta, Silvano > Cc: Shi, Yao-Bin (Larry, GBU-HPSW, Cloud and OS); [email protected] > Subject: Re: [FOSSology] Improve findings accuracy > > 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). > > _______________________________________________ > > fossology mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.fossology.org/mailman/listinfo/fossology _______________________________________________ fossology mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fossology.org/mailman/listinfo/fossology
