A tool for checking licenses

[Ville Oksanen <ville.oksanen@hut.fi>]

Hi,

I hope that this might be something useful for the people here. We (as 
in HUT/SoberIT/COSS)are currently developing a tool for checking the 
license information inside FOSS-packages. The idea is to make it simple 
to get a quick understanding what kind licenses are used. In addition, 
the tool will (hopefully) understand the relations between different 
files and warn about possible license incompatibilies. The tool is 
currenlty available from:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/oslc

Any feedback would be warmly appreciated. It's GPL'ed so feel free to 
hack away, too!


Ville Oksanen
Researcher, Helsinki University of Technology
OSSI-project - www.coss.fi/ossi/