Project Ideas Improve package license detection - aboutcode-org/aboutcode GitHub Wiki

Improve ScnnCode package license detection

The goal of this project is to improve package license detection across the board. ScanCode toolkit package license detection works primarily by:

1. extracting license statements found in package manifests
2. applying license detection and normalization on these extracted statements

In some case things are super simple: for instance the npm package.json license tag "license": "MIT" is pretty straight forward and obvious. The difficulty is in the details and getting these right at a large scale on most or all the packages.

This project idea can take multiple shapes and it should focus on one or more package types. The end results should be a significant improvement to the license detection quality for the selected package types.

These are details on sub-projects focused each on a different package type. Some may be completed or quite advanced. The long term goal is to work closely with each package ecosystem to contribute the improved license data upstream.

• Improve Maven package license detection results. This is important and working only for the basics.

• Improve Go package license detection results

• Improve Rust package license detection results

• Improve PyPI package license detection results

• Improve Ruby package license detection results

• Improve NPM package license detection results. This is mostly done

• Improve Debian package license detection results . This is mostly done for the basic copyright file handling.

• Improve Perl package license detection results

• Improve RPM package license detection results

• Level

  • Intermediate

• Tech

  • Python

• URLS

• Mentors

  • @pombredanne https://github.com/pombredanne
  • @AyanSinhaMahapatra https://github.com/AyanSinhaMahapatra