I think we'll start experimenting with 1+2, it sounds great! Thanks many. Best, Martin
> -----Alkuperäinen viesti----- > Lähettäjä: Gobeille, Robert [mailto:bob.gobei...@hp.com] > Lähetetty: 16. maaliskuuta 2010 18:20 > Vastaanottaja: Martin von Willebrand > Kopio: fossology@fossology.org > Aihe: Re: VS: [FOSSology] Identifiying binary files in source packages > > Hi Martin, > > Here are a few possibilities: > > 1) in V 1.2 you can select all the files where no license was detected. > > 2) Combine 1) with another feature in V 1.2 where when you get the list of > files with a given license (e.g. No License Found) you have the option to > exclude file types. In this case you would exclude each non-binary type. > For example, you could exclude ".txt", then exclude ".c", ... > > 3) The mimetype agent records the mimetype ("text/html", "text/plain", > "application/octet-stream", "image/tiff", ...), one could select all the > files with mimetypes one is interested in, but there is no user interface > to do this. Also, there are a lot of mimetypes (284) in the current > version. > > Does 1 or 1+2 above meet your needs? > > Bob Gobeille > > On Mar 16, 2010, at 3:49 AM, Martin von Willebrand wrote: > > > Hi Bob, > > I wasn't actually that far (you're thinking the next step). I was > wondering a simple way to just recognise that the package contains > binaries and points to/lists the binary-files. ("Hey there were also some > binaries, and many times license info is dropped in compilation so you > might want to do some additional diligence on the binaries.") > > > > The next step is then to start analysing the binaries. Attaching > binaries to sources / or signatures, which then in turn are attached to > licenses. > > > > But just getting the info on whether binaries exist in a package or not, > is the start. I was actually asking that very first step, although the > next step is obviously even more interesting, even though it probably > cannot be answered very fast. > > > > Martin > > > > > >> -----Alkuperäinen viesti----- > >> Lähettäjä: Gobeille, Robert [mailto:bob.gobei...@hp.com] > >> Lähetetty: 15. maaliskuuta 2010 16:06 > >> Vastaanottaja: Martin von Willebrand > >> Kopio: fossology@fossology.org > >> Aihe: Re: [FOSSology] Identifiying binary files in source packages > >> > >> Hi Martin, > >> Fossology does look for license strings inside of binaries, but I think > >> what you are asking for is to recognize which binaries came from what > >> source and report those licenses. Is that it? Another way to do this > is > >> to create symbol libraries to build up signatures that identify > components > >> in a library. I have been talking to someone who might be interested > in > >> doing that but even if they would do it, it would not be available for > a > >> while. > >> > >> Did you have something specific in mind? > >> > >> Bob Gobeille > >> > >> > >> On Mar 15, 2010, at 5:42 AM, Martin von Willebrand wrote: > >> > >> Hi All > >> > >> Sometimes (repeatedly enough) source packages include binaries. > Typically > >> external libraries, and quite often in the folder /lib/, but also > >> elsewhere. For compliance review these present a challenge since no > text- > >> matches are found. Fossology obviously can't find any text-matches. > >> > >> The first step is to realise that the package contains binaries. Is > this > >> info something that would be easily available in Fossology? > > _______________________________________________ fossology mailing list fossology@fossology.org http://fossology.org/mailman/listinfo/fossology
