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This page provides information how to use a Web script to find out whether a particular software package and optionally in a particular version already has been curated. It can be used to create references into the particular OSSelot repository on Github as exemplified here.

Find out whether a particular version of a software package is supported and has already been curated

For this purpose a special Web script is provided at the OSSelot Web interface.

Call the Web script from browser

Use the URL https://www.osselot.org/curated.php?packagename to determine whether a particular software package already has been curated and, if so, for which version disclosure information is available. For example https://www.osselot.org/curated.php?angular may return

angular/version-15.1.0
angular/version-15.2.2
angular/version-16.0.1
angular/version-16.1.2

If a package has not been curated so far, the output of the given URL remains empty. Otherwise, the output can be concatenated to the URL of the OSSelot Github package repository at https://github.com/Open-Source-Compliance/package-analysis/tree/main/analysed-packages/ such as, for example,

https://github.com/Open-Source-Compliance/package-analysis/tree/main/analysed-packages/angular/version-15.2.2

Call the Web script from command line

Checkout any versions

wget -qO - https://www.osselot.org/curated.php?angular | grep -v '<'
angular/version-15.1.0
angular/version-15.2.2
angular/version-16.0.1
angular/version-16.1.2

Search for a particular version

wget -qO - https://www.osselot.org/curated.php?angular | grep 15.2.2
angular/version-15.2.2

Web interface to immediately run the above described Web script from this page and provide links to the found repositories

Look for other software packages that may have already been curated at OSSelot and provide links to the related repositories

Web interfaces to extract particular information

The above Web script may be encapsulated in a shell script to extract particular information from the OSSelot resources such as disclosure documents, individually designed disclosure documents or list of licenses in use.

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