Can you give more details of how to run the application?

[pironev]

Hi. Can you give more details on how to run the application? README.md seems too scarce on information.
I tried go run license_serializer.go. It works fine.
But identify_license can't find licenses.db.
I have an error 2023/03/29 20:33:49 cannot create license classifier: cannot register licenses from archive: open licenses.db: file does not exist.
Where does licenses.db need to be located ?

Another question - how does it scan the files?
I have all licenses files (*.txt) in one folder. Do I need to indicate the path on this?
Does it also work on a folder recursively?

Please add more details in README.md. Thank you.

[mbarison]

agree with the OP. how do I run the code?

[jfgoog]

Here's what I did to get it to run:

1. In licenses/embed.go, change // go:embed *.db *.txt to //go:embed *.txt (note: no space between // and go:embed)
2. go run tools/license_serializer/license_serializer.go -output to create licenses/licenses.db
3. In licenses/embed.go, change the //go:embed directive to //go:embed *.db
4. go run tools/identify_license/identify_license.go <license file>