tools to check/track (code) compliance

[Arnoldo Muller]

Some projects that try to analyse the semantics of the binary programs:

http://furiachan.org
http://stigmata.sourceforge.jp/

Hopefully someday we can come up with an automated way of analysing
license violations.

regards,

Arnoldo Muller

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Bradley M. Kuhn<bkuhn at ebb.org> wrote:
> Trevor Woerner wrote:
>>> Another method might be to use a tool which analyses the code itself
>>> (i.e. the code which is committed) looking for indications that the
>>> code might be from somewhere else (e.g. different coding style,
>>> copyright statements, license files, etc.).
>
> While it doesn't completely serve your needs, you should definitely look
> at FOSSology, which is (AFAIK) completely Free Software.  It just
> catalogs what it can find with regard the licensing and copyright
> information in files, and doesn't try to make assessments.
>
> Peter is quite correct that this is a very hard technical problem in the
> abstract.  I've looked into it myself a few times and the issue of false
> positives is very bad.  I believe we won't get something good until
> there is a real Free Software project trying to do it.  I think
> FOSSology wants to go there eventually, and I hope developers will help
> them do it.
> --
>
>   -- bkuhn
>
>