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:mag: ScanCode detects licenses, copyrights, dependencies by "scanning code" ... to discover and inventory open source and third-party packages used in your code. Sponsored by NLnet, the Google Summer of Code, Azure credits, nexB and other generous sponsors!

10 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 3 stories, 7 comments · first 2015-07-24 · latest 2026-10-20

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  1. …been procrastinating on writing a blog post about exactly that. [1] https://www.fossology.org/ [2] https://github.com/aboutcode-org/scancode-toolkit
    comment by Tomte · 2026-10-20 · in OpenBSD 8.0 release will have inteldrm/radeondrm/amdgpu drivers from Linux 6.18
  2. Syft ( https://github.com/anchore/syft ) and ScanCode ( https://github.com/aboutcode-org/scancode-toolkit ) are good open-source tools to generate SBOMs and search repos for licensing information — I'm curious to hear if there are reasons…
    comment by jcalx · 2025-02-17 · in Open source projects could sell SBOM fragments
  3. …service, you need to scan your codebase anyway. And it's not that difficult, really. I recommend https://github.com/aboutcode-org/scancode-toolkit .
    comment by deng · 2025-02-17 · in Open source projects could sell SBOM fragments
  4. …and generates a manifest of all included libraries including license/copyright. Here's one of them: https://github.com/nexB/scancode-toolkit
    comment by adrr · 2023-08-11 · in What HashiCorp’s license change means for our customers
  5. …sequences alignment (e.g. a specialized diff). I put some docs there to explain the approach at a https://github.com/nexB/scancode-toolkit/blob/develop/src/li...
    comment by pombreda · 2022-04-09 · in User beware: Modified AGPLv3 removes freedoms, adds legal headaches
  6. …license detector is ScanCode. I think it uses some sort of rolling checksum thing for detection. https://github.com/nexB/scancode-toolkit/
    comment by pabs3 · 2022-04-08 · in User beware: Modified AGPLv3 removes freedoms, adds legal headaches
  7. https://github.com/nexB/scancode-toolkit/
    comment by sesser · 2019-06-12 · in BlackDuck Alternatives