[Fedora-legal-list] Licensing Tool (diploma thesis)

Tom Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Wed Feb 29 19:20:46 UTC 2012


On 02/29/2012 01:24 PM, Tomas Radej wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:22:08 -0500
> Richard Fontana <rfontana at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 09:46:17AM -0500, Tom Callaway wrote:
>>> On 02/28/2012 11:00 AM, Tomas Radej wrote:
>>>
>>>> What I would like to ask you is if you too consider the execution of this project to be safe enough to be done and not threaten Fedora, e. g. by pointing out unnoticed licensing issues to a malefactor.
>>>
>>> Should be fine. Any issues you find will be issues we want to address.
>>> Have you looked at FOSSology?
>>
>> You may also wish to look at Daniel German's work at the University of
>> Victoria if you are not already familiar with it.
>>
>> - Richard
> 
> Hi,
> 
> To Tom: I have, but I think it does something slightly different (the NOMOS License scanner, that is). However, I can make my program with contribution to FOSSology in mind.

Please note, I was just pointing out FOSSology as a similar player in
the same thought-space, not requiring that you contribute to it in order
to have "Fedora's blessing". :)

~tom

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