DIY Disclosure files

Create individually designed disclosure files

This interface uses a script available from the SPDX2Disclosure repository.

Encapsulate the search Web script into a shell script to provide a command line interface for creating individually designed disclosure files

To create a disclosure file that relates to a given package name and version from the O Github repository and design it with respect to the display of licenses and other additional features the following shell script can be used. It selects an additional section with copyright notices per file plus all licenses referenced (option "-lr") and prepending package information (option "-p").

#!/bin/bash

if test -z "$1" -o -z "$2"
then
  echo "Usage: $0 <package> <version>"
  exit 1
fi
package="$1"
version="$2"
if test `wget -qO - https://www.osselot.org/curated.php?$package | grep version-$version`
then
  wget -qO - "https://www.osselot.org/diydisclosure.php?$package&-lr&-p"
fi

The output of this script can then be adapted to the actual file set of the binary software distribution and given to the recipient of the software upon delivery as an important step toward compliance with the license terms. Possible further steps to license compliance are the adaptation of other legal materials such as terms and conditions and, if the license imposes this obligation, the immediate provision or an appropriate written offer to deliver the source code.

Web interface to immediately use the above described script and search for a given package and create a disclosure document according to the given settings

Overall design

Additional section with copyright notices per file
Same as first choice plus all licenses referenced
Same as first choice plus non-standard BSD licenses verbatim
Same as first choice plus all hashed licenses verbatim
Same as first choice plus all licenses verbatim

Additional features

Include file checksums
Number files consecutively
Prepend package information

Look for software packages that may have already been curated at O and provide links to the related individually designed disclosure documents that will be created on the fly

Search for an O disclosure document

Interface to obtain standard disclosure documents

A similar interface provides for retrieving the standard disclosure files without the possibility for selecting the overall design for inclusion of licensing data and for adding certain optional features.

Interface to obtain a list of licenses

A similar interface provides for listing the licenses that a particular software package uses instead of the entire disclosure documents.