This tool is constructed with the purpose of holding a small database of license identifiers with their respective license classification alongside other important parameters. The tool provides a mechanism to detect the compliance status of various license classifications based on a matrix that it holds internally.
```Rust // loading from file let classifier = Classifier::fromfile("./data"); // or the longer way let mut classifier = Classifier { data: std::collections::HashMap::new(), }; classifier.loadfrom_file("./data");
// loading from memory let classifier = Classifier::frommemory(&raw) // or the longer way let mut classifier = Classifier { data: std::collections::HashMap::new(), }; classifier.loadfrom_memory(&raw);
// saving to a file classifier.savetofile("./test_data");
// adding an entry
classifier.add(
""
// classifying a license
classifier.classify("
The compliancy_check
function takes in the host license classification that is under the repository it is supposed to check against and all the other license classifications found (e.g., in all transitive dependencies). Said method returns a CompliancyStatus
enum that can be either Compliant
or NonCompliant
with the latter containing a vector of all the non-compliant licenses classifications (i.e., all the classifications that are directly incompatible with the host license classification).
NOTE: the
CompliancyStatus::NonCompliant
does NOT return the classifications that are found to be compliant with the host classification, only the ones that are not.
NOTE: the
LicenseClassification::Unknown
andLicenseClassification::Special
are always considered to be incompliant with any other license classification; However, there exists an option to force unknown licenses to be compliant.
```Rust // some examples asserteq!( compliancycheck( &LicenseClassification::Open, &vec![LicenseClassification::Affero], false, ), CompliancyStatus::NonCompliant(vec![LicenseClassification::Affero]) );
asserteq!( compliancycheck( &LicenseClassification::Open, &vec![LicenseClassification::Commercial], false, ), CompliancyStatus::NonCompliant(vec![LicenseClassification::Commercial]) );
asserteq!( compliancycheck( &LicenseClassification::Open, &vec![LicenseClassification::Viral], false, ), CompliancyStatus::NonCompliant(vec![LicenseClassification::Viral]) );
asserteq!( compliancycheck( &LicenseClassification::Unknown, &vec![LicenseClassification::Viral], false, ), CompliancyStatus::NonCompliant(vec![LicenseClassification::Viral]) );
// more advanced example asserteq!( compliancycheck( &LicenseClassification::Viral, &vec![ LicenseClassification::Open, LicenseClassification::Viral, LicenseClassification::Affero, // incompliant starts here LicenseClassification::Commercial, LicenseClassification::Unknown ], false, ), CompliancyStatus::NonCompliant(vec![ LicenseClassification::Affero, LicenseClassification::Commercial, LicenseClassification::Unknown ]) ); ```