Awesome to hear. Is the source also at the github for spdx/tools? I took a brief look but didn't see it but admittedly didn't dig through all the files.
Will there be an option to use fuzzy matching showing the differences? While it'd be nice if licenses exactly matched, the concern would be if we had something that almost completely matched. You mentioned other tools that report close matches, but I wasn't aware of any that did that for the SPDX license list. Alan D. Tse Associate General Counsel Western Digital Corporation 3355 Michelson Dr., Suite 100, Irvine, CA 92612 T: 949-672-7759 F: 949-672-6604 From: spdx-legal-boun...@lists.spdx.org [mailto:spdx-legal-boun...@lists.spdx.org] On Behalf Of g...@sourceauditor.com Sent: Friday, August 04, 2017 9:47 AM To: 'SPDX-legal' <spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org> Subject: License checking tool available An online tool for checking license text against the SPDX license list is now available at https://spdx.org/spdxweb The URL redirects to a server generously provided by the Openchain project team. The tool basically compares the text to all SPDX listed licenses using the license matching guidelines. If a license does not completely match per the guidelines, it will not e displayed. This is quite different from many other tools that report close matches where only a few words may be different. There are a few limitations. The software uses the templates in the listed license for the currently published version. In the currently published version, there are several licenses with limited or no template markup (e.g. the MIT<https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT.html> license). For these licenses, the text will only match if all of the text is present. If you believe text should match the license, take a look at the license list web page for that license and review for red text (replaceable) and blue text (omitable). Let me know if you have any questions. If you run into any issues, feel free to add them to the spdx-tools issues list: https://github.com/spdx/tools/issues Gary ------------------------------------------------- Gary O'Neall Principal Consultant Source Auditor Inc. Mobile: 408.805.0586 Email: g...@sourceauditor.com<mailto:g...@sourceauditor.com> Western Digital Corporation (and its subsidiaries) E-mail Confidentiality Notice & Disclaimer: This e-mail and any files transmitted with it may contain confidential or legally privileged information of WDC and/or its affiliates, and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to which they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the e-mail in its entirety from your system.
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