Ports licenses - report 4

[Alejandro Pulver]

Hello,

The last week I've finished the FOSSology port and updated it to the 
latest release (1.1.0). I also sent changes to their mailing list, they 
seem interested in the project and will help. In particular a FOSSology 
developer from Hewlett Packard told me GPL/OSI/FSF/DFSG groups will be 
present in the next version 1.2.0, and wanted to add a link to our port.

The port is in p4 and will be committed to CVS after building in my 
tinderbox. The installation is very automated, and does not require much 
user work. My mentor was busy this week but it may be installed on a 
FreeBSD server (it has a web interface for uploading files, and produces 
detailed reports, matching parts of about 360 licenses and variations).

I haven't looked much into the CLI interface, but it says to have one, 
and at least there is a command "fosslic" for quickly matching a single 
file (it doesn't need a web server, just the daemon and initial setup).

Before that, bsd.licenses.mk and bsd.licenses.db were committed to CVS. 
We won't add the 360 licenses supported by FOSSology (I mean, for open 
source ones only add their names and share redistribution permissions, 
at worst by groups), but focus on handling better our restricted ports 
right now.

So this week I'll add the compatibility layer for restricted ports, so a 
port can either define NO_*/RESTRICTED or LICENSE* variables, and 
pointyhat scripts will work with both of them (it uses some targets in 
bsd.port.mk).

These are 2 separate tasks as restricted ports will be converted 
manually, but others (hopefully) could be analyzed by a script using 
FOSSology's interface.

Regards,
Ale