Massive FOSS scan
License scan on the whole Software Heritage archive
ScanCode is a comprehensive open source license and code origin scanner. It is actively used by many proprietary and FOSS tools for Software Composition Analysis. This project will make detecting FOSS licenses an issue of the past by running a massive license scan on the whole Software Heritage archive of over 20 billion unique source code files from more than 327 million projects, and the PurlDB index of all major package registries and linux distro's. The outcomes will be a massive commons reference database to speed up future scanning and matching processes with accurate license information, and a massive collection of fingerprints to enable approximate code matching at scale. This will be applied to the Software Assurance/MatchCode project, and available for other users and organizations as open data to improve FOSS code matching and discovery at an unprecedented scale.
- The project's own website: https://aboutcode.org
Run by AboutCode Europe ASBL
This project was funded through the NGI0 Commons Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 101135429. Additional funding is made available by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI).
