Re: enhancing scanCode to respect gitignore files

[Rodric Rabbah <ro...@gmail.com>]

The PR is now merged. I’ve checked some of the repos and they still pass but found some that need tweaks to their config file. I’ll address what I catch. 

-r

> On Mar 29, 2019, at 9:45 PM, Rodric Rabbah <ro...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I opened a PR https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk-utilities/pull/57 to bundle the relevant parts of the "pathspec" library. This avoids pip install in all downstream clients. 
> 
> The pathspec library is Mozilla Public License 2.0 [1]. My reading of the Mozilla License, their FAQ [2] and the Apache 3rd Party License Policy [3] leads me to conclude the bundling is acceptable. 
> 
> [1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/MPL/2.0/
> [2] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/MPL/2.0/FAQ
> [3] https://apache.org/legal/resolved.html
> 
> -r
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>> On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 8:55 PM Rodric Rabbah <ro...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >  Am I understanding correctly that we'd need to go change the .travis.yaml files for pretty much every openwhisk repo to do the `pip install pathspec` as part of its install phase?
>> 
>> That's right. I could mitigate this by having scancode itself install the module (via) pip if necessary.
>> Alternatively, I could bundle the relevant parts of library into scancode. It's Mozilla Licensed and not very big (https://github.com/cpburnz/python-path-specification).
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