licomp-dwheeler 0.5.1

Simple command line tool to check compatibility between two licenses, given context

licomp-dwheeler

Implementation of Licomp using David Wheeler's license compatibility graph providing compatibility:

• between an outbound license and inbound licenses
• when distributing a binary
• linking to (e.g. linking to a library) a licensed component
• the licensed component is unmodified

David Wheeler's original graph

Licomp's graph

Introduction

Licomp dwheeler implements the Licomp api for communicating with the Licomp resources. For a better understanding of Licomp we suggest you read:

• Licomp basic concepts
• Licomp reply format

The various licomp resources below can be accessed as a group by:

• licomp-toolkit - (pip install licomp-toolkit)

Licomp is used be the following compatibility resources:

• licomp-hermione
• licomp-osadl
• licomp-proprietary
• licomp-dwheeler

Using Licomp Dwheeler

Since Licomp Dwheeler implements Licomp we refer to the Licomp guides (both cli and python api).

Command line interface

See Licomp Comand Line Interface

Note: the commmad line program for Licomp Dwheeler is called licomp-dwheeler.

Python module

See Licomp Python API

Installing Licomp Dwheeler

From pypi.org

Licomp Dwheeler is available via pypi.org at: https://pypi.org/project/licomp-dwheeler/.

To install, simply do the following:

$ pip install licomp-dwheeler

From github

Installing from github assumes you already have pip installed.

$ git clone https://github.com/hesa/licomp-dwheeler
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
$ pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
$ pip install .