Hi,
rpminspect performs a License tag validation on packages. The license data comes from a JSON data file that I think was produced at some point from the Fedora charts on the wiki but then never really updated. Consequently, it raises failures that are incorrect per current licensing data.
The data for rpminspect comes from: https://github.com/rpminspect/rpminspect-data-fedora
The license data is in licenses/fedora.json
The format should be somewhat easy to understand. I didn't create it. I found this database and ran with it. I'd like to come up with a way to keep it in sync with the data on the wiki. Right now I advise package maintainers to send me pull requests to update the data, but that's not going to be a long term solution.
Anyone have any thoughts on this? Ideas of how to keep the information up to date in all locations?
Thanks,
I am definitely open to ideas on how to make the license data/metadata more portable/maintainable.
Tom
On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 1:38 PM David Cantrell dcantrell@redhat.com wrote:
Hi,
rpminspect performs a License tag validation on packages. The license data comes from a JSON data file that I think was produced at some point from the Fedora charts on the wiki but then never really updated. Consequently, it raises failures that are incorrect per current licensing data.
The data for rpminspect comes from: https://github.com/rpminspect/rpminspect-data-fedora
The license data is in licenses/fedora.json
The format should be somewhat easy to understand. I didn't create it. I found this database and ran with it. I'd like to come up with a way to keep it in sync with the data on the wiki. Right now I advise package maintainers to send me pull requests to update the data, but that's not going to be a long term solution.
Anyone have any thoughts on this? Ideas of how to keep the information up to date in all locations?
Thanks,
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On Fri, 17 Apr 2020, Tom Callaway wrote:
I am definitely open to ideas on how to make the license data/metadata more portable/maintainable.
On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 1:38 PM David Cantrell dcantrell@redhat.com wrote: The data for rpminspect comes from: https://github.com/rpminspect/rpminspect-data-fedora
The license data is in licenses/fedora.json Anyone have any thoughts on this? Ideas of how to keep the information up to date in all locations?
To me, the obvious solution is a git hook that updates the wiki from the json file. Does the wiki have a webapi, to avoid a screen scraper?
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