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Nemo157 / cargo-lichking

Automated license checking for rust. cargo lichking is a Cargo subcommand that checks licensing information for dependencies.
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Document what "check" really means #57

Open Nemo157 opened 5 years ago

Nemo157 commented 5 years ago

It's not documented anywhere what a pass/fail for checking compatibility really means. I made a short comment here about it, but something like this should be moved into the readme and help text.

rhn commented 5 years ago

Continuing the discussion from the referenced PR, to developers anything distributable, it's rather common to have to comply with additional terms, e. g. the attribution requirement in binary releases.

It would be useful to give the user a summary of what exactly those additional burdens are. That in turn could lay the groundwork for GPL compliance requirements.

danieleades commented 5 years ago

is there a way i can use this tool to check compliance with a non-standard commercial license? Say by providing a generic 'commercial' tag or by specifying a compatibility matrix in a config file.

In a perfect world this would need to include any commercial distribution restrictions as well (say by industry, by application, or by geography)