Roadmap

Roadmap

Features and improvements we are planning or working on:

next release

additional file information

• provide basic file information in results (size, type, etc.)

packaged code and dependencies support

• common model for component data
• basic support for common packages format

Beyond

additional clue detection

• URLs, emails, authors

license detection

• approximate license detection
• unknown license detection
• sync with external sources (DejaCode, SPDX, etc.)
• web ui for easier license rules contribution

copyrights

• improved detected lines range
• streamline grammar

speed!

• accelerate license detection indexing and scanning; include caching
• scan using multiple processes to speed up overall scan

documentation

• integration in a build/CI loop
• end to end guide to analyze a codebase

core features

• transparent archive extraction
• support scan pipelines to organize more complex scans
• .scancode configuration file for exclusions, defaults, etc
• scan baselining, delta scan and failure conditions (such as license change, etc)

packaging

• simpler installation, automated installer
• minimal GUI
• demo web site

packaged code and dependencies support

• common model for component data
• Java Maven POM.XML files, Ivy, Graddle, etc.
• RPMs
• debs
• Windows Nuget, PE
• Gems
• npm and other JavaScript (jspm, bower, etc.)
• Python
• Go
• PHP
• AboutCode
• other Linux distro packages
• Docker images

source code support

• symbols
• metrics
• classification

compiled code support

• ELFs
• Java byte code
• Windows PE
• Mach-O
• Dalvik/dex

#Completed features

Version 1.0.0

• exact license detection
• copyright detection
• archive extraction
• simple command line with outputs in:
• JSON
• plain HTML tables, also usable in a spreadsheet
• fancy HTML 'app' with a file tree navigation, and scan results filtering, search and sorting