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Question: Anyone knows how Ninka is compared to licensecheck? #44

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iynehz opened this issue Jan 19, 2018 · 1 comment
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Question: Anyone knows how Ninka is compared to licensecheck? #44

iynehz opened this issue Jan 19, 2018 · 1 comment

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iynehz commented Jan 19, 2018

licensecheck: https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/App-Licensecheck/bin/licensecheck
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jeremiah commented Jan 20, 2018 •
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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'.

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