On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 6:29 AM Miro Hrončok <mhroncok(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On 14. 11. 22 20:53, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
> 1) You can use
https://github.com/spdx/spdx-license-diff and use it to identify
> your license. This is a Chrome and Firefox plugin and allows you to select the
> text; and in the context menu, you can choose to identify the license. It will
> print, e.g., that it matches 60% of the MIT-feh license and highlight the
> difference. Or...
Do we have a command line tool for this? Does licensecheck support SPDX
identifiers?
(I find the use of browser extension for this very weird. I have the LICENSE
file unpackaged with the sources on my machine, I am not browsing it on the web.)
Yeah, this tool was developed by a lawyer and I think is mainly aimed
at lawyers. Since it does seem to be somewhat useful a good deal of
the time I've wondered whether it would be straightforward to create a
command line tool based on it (in addition to creating a similar tool
that would target the Fedora license list data rather than SPDX
license identifiers as such).
Richard