Philippe Ombredanne

Update the minimum system requirements

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https://scancode-toolkit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting-started/install.html?highlight=RAM#system-requirements documents the minimum requirements ... > Hardware : ScanCode will run best with a modern X86 processor and at least 4GB of RAM and 500MB of disk. These are...

This leads to confusing reporting. We should scan first for package and skip scanning as a file when the package manifest is scanned properly. Though we need to make sure...

In https://github.com/delta-io/delta/archive/refs/tags/v2.0.0rc1.tar.gz we detect only PyPI and no Scala.

Allow the scans of multiple file paths and not only a single directory

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Reported on chat: > @nicobucher wrote on Feb 20 21:52: > Hi aboutcode. I got a question regarding the scancode scanner: "Is it possible to provide a list of files...

License expressions of system packages (as in Debian) are too hairy

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> (lgpl-2.1-plus AND gpl-3.0-plus AND (lgpl-3.0-plus AND gpl-2.0-plus)) AND lgpl-2.1-plus AND gpl-3.0-plus AND gfdl-1.1-plus AND gfdl-1.3-plus AND (lgpl-2.0-plus AND lgpl-3.0 AND gpl-1.0-plus AND gpl-3.0 AND gfdl-1.3) AND lgpl-2.1-plus AND (lgpl-3.0-plus...

We should assign a category to a license-expression to clarify `license WITH exception` cases

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For instance `GPL-2.0 WITH Classpath-exception 2.0` should be treated as Copyleft-limited and not as Copyleft This was reported by @DennisClark and it could be that all exceptions to a Copyleft...

https://registry.npmjs.org/None/-/None-None.tgz was seen with this package.json: ``` { "private": true, "scripts": { "prepare": "lerna run prepare", "rebuild:browser": "theia rebuild:browser", "rebuild:electron": "theia rebuild:electron" }, "devDependencies": { "lerna": "3.13.0" }, "workspaces": [...

RFC: Revamp "unknown" license detection

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### [Context and Problem](#context-and-problem) The whole idea of detecting unknown licenses and reporting these with the real detection is a bit weird and confusing. We should make this area clearer...

Nuget issue /question Reported on Gitter channel

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> Hi guys, I'm looking for a tool that can scan licences and ScanCode looks good for this task but I faced one challenge. In my codebase, for instance, there...

See https://github.com/nexB/scancode-toolkit/issues/2989 ``` parties: - type: role: author name: Sam Saffron,Marc Gravell,Nick Craver email: url: - type: role: owner name: Sam Saffron,Marc Gravell,Nick Craver email: url: ``` is missing a...