licomp-gnuguide 0.5.2

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

Licomp GNU Guide

Implementation of Licomp using A Quick Guide to GPLv3 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

A Quick Guide to GPLv3's original graph

Licomp's graph

Introduction

Licomp Gnuguide 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
• licomp-gnuguide

Using Licomp GNU Guide

Since Licomp GNU Guide 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 GNU Guide is called licomp-gnuguide.

Python module

See Licomp Python API

Installing Licomp GNU Guide

From pypi.org

Licomp GNU Guide is available via pypi.org at: https://pypi.org/project/licomp-gnuguide/.

To install, simply do the following:

$ pip install licomp-gnuguide

From github

Installing from github assumes you already have pip installed.

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