[jira] [Commented] (BROOKLYN-593) GitHub doesn't recognize Apache Brooklyn license

["Geoff Macartney (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Geoff Macartney commented on BROOKLYN-593:
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Thanks for the suggestion Andrea.  Given that you already have a clone of Brooklyn on which you have made and tested these changes, perhaps you would like to raise a pull request against Brooklyn?  Regards, Geoff.

> GitHub doesn't recognize Apache Brooklyn license
> ------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: BROOKLYN-593
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BROOKLYN-593
>             Project: Brooklyn
>          Issue Type: Documentation
>            Reporter: Andrea Kao
>            Priority: Minor
>
> Hello!
> GitHub uses a library called Licensee to identify a project's license type. It shows this information in the status bar and via the API if it can unambiguously identify the license. Licensee is currently unable to recognize Apache Brooklyn's license type.
> This is in part due to the fact that the LICENSE file doesn't contain the _full_ text of the Apache license (i.e., it is missing the Appendix at the end of the license).
> A simple fix might involve the following steps:
>  * restoring the Appendix to the end of the Apache license text in the LICENSE file
>  * removing all text preceding the beginning of the license text in the LICENSE file
>  * updating the README to include a "License" section, which would store the text that was removed from the beginning of the LICENSE file. This could read as follows: 
> {noformat}
> ### License
> This software is distributed under the Apache License, version 2.0, copyright (c) The Apache Software Foundation and contributors. Please see the LICENSE file for (1) the full text of the Apache License, followed by (2) notices for bundled software and (3) licenses for bundled software.
> {noformat}
> (For repositories licensed with the Apache License, Licensee is unable to detect the correct license type unless the LICENSE file begins with the full text of the Apache license.)
> For comparison purposes, here is the output that I get when I run Licensee locally on Apache Brooklyn's remote repo:
> {noformat}
> $ licensee detect https://github.com/apache/brooklyn
>  License: Other
>  Matched files: LICENSE
>  LICENSE:
>  Content hash: 5717ab47e05db42d81bdfc383a1ae6b9a53b67f4
>  License: Other
>  Closest licenses:
>  Apache-2.0 similarity: 74.91%
>  ECL-2.0 similarity: 73.37%
>  EPL-2.0 similarity: 48.59%
> {noformat}
> And here is the output that I get when I run Licensee on my local Apache Brooklyn clone (in which I have made the changes listed above):
> {noformat}
> $ licensee detect ../brooklyn/
> License:        Apache License 2.0
> Matched files:  LICENSE, README.md
> LICENSE:
>   Content hash:  4f3dee90d3ff02d566b067c25982c2bfd7e360c1
>   Confidence:    100.00%
>   Matcher:       Licensee::Matchers::Exact
>   License:       Apache License 2.0
> README.md:
>   Content hash:  b77b21d0aa303586e2f6ccc1dd72133caad05ac1
>   Confidence:    90.00%
>   Matcher:       Licensee::Matchers::Reference
>   License:       Apache License 2.0
>   Closest licenses:
>     WTFPL similarity:  23.88%
>     Zlib similarity:   19.05%
>     MS-PL similarity:  18.89%
> {noformat}



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