Announcing Snaplint

[Spencer Parkin]

Ha!  :)  Yeah, I guess it would, though I have no idea what dogfooding run
means.

GPL purports to be free, but it's not.  If a piece of software was free,
you could encorporate it into your own software that you need to be
proprietary.  So many times I find something I think is great and I want to
use it but...oh...crap...it's GPL; can't use it.  In other words, GPL is a
pain for in-house development, and it's an infectious license that spreads
from one GPL project to another.  If I want to use GPL software, I have to
use the GPL license, if my understanding is correct.



On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 9:29 PM, Scott Sweeny <scott.sweeny at canonical.com>
wrote:

> That would make for an interesting dogfooding run since the tool
> itself is GPL-3 :-)
>
> ~S
>
> On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 07:42:36PM -0700, Spencer wrote:
> > Uh...but if I use your tool, then I can't claim ignorance when I'm
> getting sued for copyright violations.
> >
> > Seriously, though, I hate all the legal crap licensing causes in the
> development world.  Your tool could make life a lot easier in that regard,
> which is nice.
> >
> > BTW, the GPL is the worst license ever.  Your lint tool should flag its
> use as a fatal error.
> >
> > > On Dec 8, 2016, at 2:44 PM, Scott Sweeny <scott.sweeny at canonical.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I'm writing to announce a tool I've been working on to encode best
> > > practices for snapping software. Inspired by utilities like lintian
> I've
> > > decided to name it 'snaplint'. At this point I'd like some wider
> > > feedback as I try to make it more useful.
> > >
> > > Right now you can run snaplint against your snapcraft project directory
> > > and it will scan the prime subdirectory for the following things:
> > >
> > > * copyright (basically that you included usr/share/doc/*copyright* for
> > > any stage-packages
> > > * developer cruft (things like header and object files or static libs
> > > that might have made their way into your snap)
> > > * libraries (examine the ELF files in your snap and look for libraries
> > > which aren't used)
> > >
> > > The next things I'm planning on adding are:
> > > * checking for copyright info from apps/parts themselves.
> > > * checking for mixing of incompatible licenses
> > >
> > > I would love to hear suggestions from you on further improvements.
> > >
> > > You can find the source at https://github.com/ssweeny/snaplint
> > >
> > > And, of course you can try it on your own machine with
> > >
> > >    $ snap install snaplint
> > >    $ snaplint <path/to/your/project>
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > ~Scott
> > >
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