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dmgerman / ninka

a license identification tool for Source Code
http://ninka.turingmachine.org
GNU General Public License v2.0
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Question: Anyone knows how Ninka is compared to licensecheck? #44

Open iynehz opened 6 years ago

iynehz commented 6 years ago

licensecheck: https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/App-Licensecheck/bin/licensecheck

jeremiah commented 6 years ago

Licensecheck is a tool from Debian and is pretty useful if you're doing quick and dirty Debian packaging. ninka is much more sophisticated, it has support for creating SQL database entries, Excel files, and splits source code files into code and comments looking for 'tokens' or short sentences that it uses to identify which license the source code is under. Licensecheck uses a simpler algorithm where it is mostly doing a regular expression and key word search for words like 'license' and 'copyright'.