ScanCode is a new tool to scan code for open source licenses and origin. It could be of use for some people in the QA team hence this one-time announce post.
ScanCode could be an adjunct for package QA and could also help maintainers to create or update package copyright files. It tries to identify the license and origin of third-party code using rules and specialized parsers to detect copyrights, licenses and other provenance clues in the code itself. This is a command line tool, Apache-licensed, primarily coded in Python, intensively tested, and hopefully made to be easy to use and hack. It runs on Linux (of course), Mac and Windows. Download: https://github.com/nexB/scancode-toolkit/releases Doc: https://github.com/nexB/scancode-toolkit/blob/master/README.rst Feedback welcomed. -- Philippe Ombredanne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/cahedpx8b-ijpbbb1mhbatt0jby4d983rkamlyg2f6j7blf5...@mail.gmail.com
