AboutCode is a suite of tools to uncover data ... about software and code:

Technologies
python, javascript, django, postgres
Topics
software composition analysis, software packages, scanning
AboutCode is a suite of tools to uncover data ... about software and code:

Our tools are used to help detect and report the origin and license of source code, packages and binaries as well as discover software and package dependencies, and in the future track security vulnerabilities, bugs and other important software package attributes. This is a suite of command line tools, web-based and API servers and desktop applications.

2021 Program

Successful Projects

Contributor
Avishrant Sharma
Mentor
Tushar Goel, Thomas Druez, pombredanne
Organization
AboutCode
Integration of Alternate Code Analysis Tools
This project aims to provide a way to implement and integrate the likes of Google Licenseclassifier, GitHub Licensee, and other license detection and...
Contributor
Pratik Dey
Mentor
Tushar Goel, pombredanne, Steven Esser-1
Organization
AboutCode
Integrate VirtualCodebase with Deltacode
The goal of this proposal is to refactor DeltaCode to use Scancode-Toolkit’s Virtual Codebase class. This refactoring will allow DeltaCode to be a...
Contributor
Akanksha Garg
Mentor
ayansinha, pombredanne
Organization
AboutCode
Detect Unknown Licenses and Indirect License references in ScanCode
Scancode uses various different techniques to detect licenses based on various multiple sequence alignments ,algorithms ,automations etc. but the...
Contributor
Hritik Vijay
Mentor
Shivam Sandbhor, pombredanne
Organization
AboutCode
VulnerableCode importers refactoring and addition
VulnerableCode has a large number of pending tickets that require adding more data sources of known vulnerabilities (aka. importers). As importers...