Description:

flict 1.2.14

flict / FOSS License Compatibility Tool
Introduction
FOSS License Compatibility Tool (flict) is a Free and Open
Source Software tool to verify license compatibility for a package and
its dependencies. You can use the tool to automate license
compatibility verification in your compliance work flow.
flict can:


verify license compatibility for license expression and a package with dependencies


suggest candidate outbound licenses


simplify license expressions


display, in misc format, compatibilities between licenses


check outbound licenses against a policy (policy as supplied by the user)


flict supports:


104 licenses (flict -of text list)


normalizing common non SPDX ways to write licenses (e.g GPLv2 -> GPL-2.0-only) via foss-licenses


adding your own licenses (and compatibilities), see "Extending the license db" in SETTINGS


specifying licenses that are not allowed, see "Denied licenses" in SETTINGS


specifying license preference in case of a choice (e.g. "MIT OR FTL"), see "Preferred licenses" in SETTINGS


Examples
Check out our EXAMPLES
Extensible and tweakable
flict does not come with any knowledge about licenses and their
compatibilities or license prioritiy prefeerences. These things are
specified outside the tool, using JSON and CSV files. By default flict
has files defining licenses and compatibilities which probably gets
most of our users going. Having licenses and compatibilities (and even
more stuff) defined outside the tool makes it easy to extend the tool
with new licenses etc without modifying the code.
Read more in SETTINGS
Supported licenses
License matrix
To check compatibility between two licenses flict is using
osadl-matrix which
is using OSADL's
matrix.json
as found in Open Source License
Checklists
Installing
Look at our INSTALLATION page.
Docker image
Flict is included in the docker image Compliance Tools which is easily managed by Compliance Tool Collection
Exit code and reports
flict outputs a report as well as an exit code.
Exit code
0 - success
5 - missing arguments
10 - invalid project file
11 - invalid expression
12 - file not found
Compatibility verification report
A report of the component's compatibility with suggested outbound
licenses is created. By default a short text report is created, but
flict can provide a report in a couple of formats.
Report formats
JSON
Default. Available for all commands.
Markdown
With markdown output you can use pandoc to create output in other
formats (e.g. html, pdf). Partially supported.
Text
Partially supported.
User specific configuration
You can create a user specific configuration for the tool that defines a few default parameters to your choices.
Either create a json file at ~/.flict.cfg or at a path defined by environment variable FLICT_USERCONFIG.



key
sets CLI option




license_matrix-file
-lmf --license-matrix-file


licenses_denied_file
-ldf --licenses-denied-file


licenses_denied_file
-ldf --licenses-denied-file


alias-file
-af --alias-file


output-format
-of --output-format



Example user configuration
{
"license_matrix-file": "/my/very/own/osadl-matrix.csv",
"output-format": "text"
}

Reporting bugs
File a ticket at github.com/vinland-technology/flict/issues.
Contribute to the project
See CONTRIBUTING
License of flict
flict is released under GPLv3 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html)

License

For personal and professional use. You cannot resell or redistribute these repositories in their original state.

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