On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 02:59:25PM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > > So in my opinion the option we should implement is a (mostly) automated > license check. There are various tools listed on the wiki page, but > there are also commercial tools out there which do that task. Although I > know it will sounds completely wrong in the ears of some of readers > here, I think asking one of the companies if they'd sponsor their tools > to examine the new queue sounds like a very good idea to me, if it helps > the ftp team to be faster. At the same time we'll get hints to license > violations from our upstreams...
Very long time ago I had a bold idea to formularize the license checking, a somewhat repetitive process into a machine learning problem. However, experience indicates that there are an amount of special cases hard to be modeled in a math system. Plus, the NEW reviewing process is not falt-tolerant, which definitely further increased the difficulty to automate ftp-master's work with "artificial intelligence". As a trainee, I ended up browsing every single file manually.
