Web UI workbench for manual review

[sameer1046]

fosslight is a new tool with nice UI and uses scancode-toolkit internally.

https://github.com/fosslight/fosslight

The audit UI in Foss lite can be reused to make a functional audit work bench

[pombredanne]

@sameer1046 Thanks... yet I see several issues there:

1. the license is AGPL-3.0 and not Apache-2.0
2. the app is written in Java and the UI in JSP which is somewhat far from a Django UI technology-wise

That said, what are the nice UI parts that you see could be integrated or reused in ScanCode.io>

[sameer1046]

Yes its not feasible technically as well as legally

[pombredanne]

@sameer1046 I would be interested to understand the specific aspects of the UI that you like though as we could learn from that for sure.

[sameer1046]

Hi @pombredanne

We would like to have feature to correct unknown license reference in the UI.

[pombredanne]

@sameer1046 yes!
Actually we could do even better... in many cases these should not even be returned. May be we can automate most of it? It would be even better than having a correction UI (which we need too anyway: could you start a separate ticket so we can design this?)

See also #1675 where we have these several ideas of interest:

• Follow and resolve "See license in COPYING" and similar references to the actual license tracked in Add a new check-compliance management command #1346 #1364
• Properly handle "intro texts" that are used generically to introduce license terms. We now have tagged with is_license_intro all such license detection rules and the usage would be to "merged" such license intro reference in the following detected license. This is already something applied in Debian copyright files in https://github.com/nexB/scancode-toolkit/blob/132e6b8cf3e173aaa1bfecbd624f228b8aa55b5b/src/packagedcode/debian_copyright.py#L1404 and this helps a lot!

[sameer1046]

Sure. I will create a issue. Closing this. Thanks again

[sameer1046]

#102

[pombredanne]

OK, got it!
This is closed to the benefit of #102