ScanCode is a new tool to scan code for open source licenses and origin. I thought it could be of use for some people at Creadur, hence this one-time announce post.
It could be use 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 which I reckon is part of what Creadur is about. 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. -- Cheers Philippe Ombredanne
