On May 31, 2012, at 5:29 AM, Deveaud, Marion wrote: > My company is also interested in mapping FOSSology's license templates with > SPDX identifiers. > Unfortunately our scanner is still using the bSAM engine so we might be at > cross-purposes regarding the SPDX harmonization effort. > > We were thinking about using the "meta" files provided with each license > template to store information related to the SPDX standard. > Do you think this is the right place to store the SPDX information? > Is there a similar mechanism in the NOMOS variant of FOSSology?
Hi Marion, For bSAM (which has been deprecated) the meta files are where I would put extra information. But it has been so long since we have touched bSAM that I forget the format of the meta files and exactly how they are used. Nomos uses a database table named "license_ref" which contains the license short name, full text, reference URL, and other fields. The nice thing about the license_ref table is that it is independent of the scanner so if we were to implement another scanner, it would use the same data. Bob Gobeille FOSSology architect _______________________________________________ fossology mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fossology.org/mailman/listinfo/fossology
