First Evaluation

First Evaluation Report

Updates

List of task completed

• Created a jinja template for ScanCode required output

• Integrated ScanCode for license scanning

  • Display name of license with percentage matched
  • Insert new license to license_ref table
  • Highlight matched text for license scanned

  

• Integrated ScanCode for Copyright and Author

  • Created following tables in the database
    • scancode_copyright
    • scancode_author
    • scancode_copyright_event
    • scancode_author_event
  • Able to insert scancode scanned output in these tables.
  • Added a tab named ScanCode Findings in copyright browser and modified Copyright findings by Fossology to FOSSology Findings.

  

List of commits

• feat(scancode): Initial commit

  • This commit will add makefile, configure, and dependencies to run scancode toolkit.

• feat(scancode/agent): Add scancode agent

  • Add scancode agent to scan a file
  • Add name and percentage of licenses to fossology database.

• feat(scancode/ui): Add scancode agent UI

  • Add UI for license scanning by scancode-toolkit.

• style(scancode): Update scancode agent

  • Update scancode key with spdx-key, datatype of percentage license match from float(returned by scancode) to int(fossology need).

• feat(scancode/highlight): Add license highlight

  • Highlight license relevant text for licenses scanned by scancode-toolkit

• feat(scancode): Add text_url and license full name

  • This commit will add text_url and license full name for new licenses inserted into FOSSology database.

• feat(scancode): Add copyright & author info in DB

  • Removed UI glitch from license highlighting.
  • This glitch was due to not inserting only unique entries in the license_file and highlight tables.

• feat(scancode):Create copyright and author table

• feat(scancode/copyrightUI):Add scancode tab

  • Added a tab named ScanCode Findings in copyright browser and modified Copyright findings by Fossology to FOSSology Findings.

• feat(scancode):Add event table, comments, license

  • Create tables for scancode_copyright_event and scancode_author_event
  • Add copyright and license text in source code
  • Add comments for source code
  • Merge LicenseMatch and Match class

How to test

• Fetch feat/newagent/scancode-toolkit branch to your local.
• Install Fossology from source

Note Incase facing problem in scancode installation, Install scancode manually with pip.

Work in progress

• Adding scancode copyright to UI
• Add emails and urls to HTML output

Postponed tasks

• Writing Tests for license integration.
• Create a ScanCode plugin to extract license-text.
  • Will do after integrating scancode copyright/author.