FOSSlim

FOSSlim stands for Free Open Source Software LIcense Matcher and it matches various forms of specifications of the OSS licenses with their ids, by default it would be SPDX-ids, but user can easily change training data;

Current design goals:

• match based on a license text, url, a content of a README etc
• decrease false positives
• support dual licensed projects
• list of licenses (default: all SPDX) is extendible
• recognizes popular EULAs
• detects additional clauses in license texts
• benchmarked and tested

It is still under active development, but it will be released as

1. Rust library ( milestone.1, milestone.3 )
2. RoR gem with example API ( milestone.2 )
3. commandline tool to scan files, TBD
4. NodeJS library with example API, TBD
5. Rust Microservice, TBD

Usage

```rust

//TODO: after first release ```

Current alternatives

here are some of alternatives you could use already now:

• SPDX lookup - https://github.com/bbqsrc/spdx-lookup-python
• LibrariesIO license normalizer - https://github.com/librariesio/spdx
• Google's license classifier - https://github.com/google/licenseclassifier
• Fossology - https://github.com/fossology/fossology
• LicenseFinder - https://github.com/pivotal/LicenseFinder