Hello Al So, thank you for your interest in FOSSology. FOSSology scans for license relevant texts, so if you run it over source code or open source packages, it will list the found licensing statements – which is more than just finding source code licensed under the GPL.
Please consider the following description of a basic workflow with FOSSology: https://www.fossology.org/get-started/basic-workflow/ This contains screenshots which might also help understanding how it looks like what FOSSology finds. Pls. let us know if you would have further questions, Michael From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of al so Sent: Freitag, 20. April 2018 07:05 To: Ryan Arnold Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [FOSSology] GPL license violations I thought this tool would aid such review in an automated fashion. But No. It just detects GPL libs. On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 3:05 PM, al so <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: How does this research and review happens? On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 12:57 PM, Ryan Arnold <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hello, It will not directly detect violations. It can be used in conjunction to identify the presence of GPL and with research and review to see if any violation may have taken place. Ryan Arnold QA Spc. QCST | San Diego From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> On Behalf Of al so Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2018 12:51 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [FOSSology] GPL license violations Does this tool detect GPL violations in commercial software?
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