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by pombreda 5y ago
You need a bit more than checksums for this. If anything the FSF published many different versions of the "official" GPL2 texts and this would defeat checksums. See https://github.com/pombredanne/gpl-history
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by pombreda 5y ago
Hey, pabs3! Actually this is not using a rolling checksum for detection but rather a combo of language model, checksums, automatons, bitvectors, inverted indexes and multiple sequences alignment (e.g. a specialized diff). I put some docs th
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by pombreda 7y ago
What is the basis for these stats? new projects? new repos? new files? new commits? the lack of details makes me wonder.
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Which version of the GPLv2 do you use? The one 2.0.1? or the latest 2.0.6?(lkml.org)
2 points by pombreda 9y ago|0 comments
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If I build a smart bomb with Linux and GPL text inside, is this enough to comply?(opensource.stackexchange.com)
3 points by pombreda 9y ago|4 comments
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by pombreda 9y ago
The vector space / IR ranking approach is useful but is not enough to get accurate detection IMHO. Eventually you need something which is not a probabilistic match and the devils is the details. For instance a license notice may be as
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Google just open sourced their open source policy. Who else?(opensource.stackexchange.com)
2 points by pombreda 10y ago|0 comments
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Of the differences between the GPLv3 and the AGPLv3 texts: what to make of them?(opensource.stackexchange.com)
2 points by pombreda 10y ago|0 comments
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by pombreda 11y ago
FWIW, I did run a quick test using the HEAD of devscripts and there are many things not detected by licensecheck that are detected by ScanCode.
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by pombreda 11y ago
At a high level, scancode detects many more licenses and copyrights than licensecheck does, reporting more details about the matches. It is likely slower. In more details: ScanCode is Python app using a data-driven approach (as opposed to c
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ScanCode: Open-source tool to scan code for licenses and copyrights(github.com)
12 points by pombreda 11y ago|3 comments