Project Ideas Improve NPM package license detection

Improve NPM package license detection

The goal of this project is to improve NPM package license detection across the board. While scancode-toolkit's NPM package detection is pretty good, there a few repeat cases where license information is not properly gathered from NPM package metadata. Usually this is because a declared_license value contains things we did not expect (like a URL) or is improperly formed.

This project would be a mix of adding new license detection rules to scancode and possibly working with upstream maintainers to improve their license declarations.

• Level
  • Intermediate
• Tech
  • Python
• URLS
• Mentors
  • @pombredanne https://github.com/pombredanne
  • @majurg https://github.com/majurg