On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 6:46 PM, <g...@sourceauditor.com> wrote: > 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 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). >
Gary: I tried to paste the verbatim text of https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl.txt and its is not matched Do you think this a code or a matching guidelines issue? -- Cordially Philippe Ombredanne _______________________________________________ Spdx-legal mailing list Spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org https://lists.spdx.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx-legal
