Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Matt Taggart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name : fossology Version : 0.8.0 Upstream Author : The FOSSology Project <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://fossology.org/ * License : (GPL, LGPL) Programming Lang: (C, PHP) Description : Free and Open Source Software analysis framework Long Description: An open and modular architecture for analyzing software. Existing modules include license analysis, meta data extraction, and MIME type identification. This open source software tool analyzes a given set of software packages, and reports items such as the software licenses used by these packages. More than simply reporting, “Package X uses license Y,” the FOSSology tool attempts to analyze every file within the package to determine its license. The license report is thus an aggregate of all of the different licenses found to be in use by a package. A single package may be labeled as “GPL” but contain files that use other licenses (BSD, OSL, or any of the hundreds of other licenses). Even if an exact license is unknown, the license may be identifiable by common license phrases. Digging deeper, the FOSSology project is intended as a general-purpose data mining tool. It can be extended by adding new Agents to analyze all sorts of meta information about Free and Open Source Software – not just licenses, but code re-use, security alerts, bug fixes and patches, project information, usage statistics – just about anything you could imagine! Status: I also work on the upstream project and have been working on cleaning up the upstream source in order to make packaging easier, doing things like fixing FHS bugs, making sure the depends and build-deps are available in debian and work well, and rewriting the build and install infrastructure to enable modular packaging and automated end user setup (database initialization, data repository setup, etc.) There is a lot to be done, but we're getting closer to having packages suitable for experimental soon. I will send more updates to this bug as I make progress. -- Matt Taggart [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
