Hi Ravits,
The advantage of accessing the live spdx.org/licenses website is that you will always be using the current version. Although the site is not updated very often, every once in a while we find a problem that requires an update. For example, 2 weeks ago we found one of the licenses was missing the text and needed to be updated. The downside is the requirement of always having access to the website. If you can run Java applications as part of your automation, I would recommend using the SPDX tools libraries since it will first attempt to access spdx.org/licenses and fall back to a local cached copy which can be downloaded and updated. I don't know of any FTP access to the web pages, but you could use a tool like wget to download the HTML to a local cache. You can then access the details using an RDFa parser. This would be my second choice. Another option is to download the source details from git.spdx.org under the license-list.git option. I would not recommend this for automation tools since the internal formats for the spreadsheet and text files may change from release to release. The RDFa tags in the HTML files will be more stable. Gary From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, April 21, 2014 10:53 AM To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ SPDX license List] give us link of license list on where it is stored. Hello Gary, Thanks a lot for the quick and useful information. We really appreciate your support and help. I have gone through the options available for accessing the license details. I prefer first option for downloading the license details considering the simplicity. However considering the automation, I felt 3rd option is the good option. Pls let us know your views (by highlighting the scenarios where these individual options are preferred or more useful). Sorry for the trouble. Regards Ravits From: Gary O'Neall [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, April 21, 2014 10:17 PM To: Kotrappa DeverShetty (WT01 - Manufacturing & Hi Tech); [email protected] Cc: Ravishankar T.S (WT01 - Manufacturing & Hi Tech); Akanksha Singh (WT01 - Manufacturing & Hi Tech) Subject: RE: [ SPDX license List] give us link of license list on where it is stored. Hi Kotrappa, Attached is a document describing various methods of accessing the standard license list from automated tools. Let me know if you have any questions. Gary From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, April 21, 2014 12:01 AM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: [ SPDX license List] give us link of license list on where it is stored. Hello Gary, One of our automation requirements, we need license list which spdx.org maintains, accessible to our automation tool. http://spdx.org/licenses/ Will above license list be available from ftp site? Or some repository where automation tool can download ? If not confidential, Please give us link if it is available in ftp/repository. Because we believe spdx.org maintains up-to-date information on license details if there is a change from license originator. Best regards Kotrappa. The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain proprietary, confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments. WARNING: Computer viruses can be transmitted via email. The recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The company accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. www.wipro.com The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain proprietary, confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments. WARNING: Computer viruses can be transmitted via email. The recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The company accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. www.wipro.com
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