[ANNOUNCE] Introducing ScanCode, a new tool to scan code for open source code licenses and origin.

[Philippe Ombredanne <po...@gmail.com>]

ScanCode is a new tool to scan code for open source licenses and origin.

I thought it could be of use for some people on this list hence this
one-time announce post.

For Apache projects, it could be an adjunct to review third-party
libraries inclusions, or as part of a pre-release check or when
receiving new contributions and or for new incubating projects.

ScanCode tries to identify the license and origin of the 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, Mac and Windows.

Download: https://github.com/nexB/scancode-toolkit/releases
Doc: https://github.com/nexB/scancode-toolkit/blob/master/README.rst

Feedback welcomed.
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Cheers

Philippe Ombredanne

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