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Project Ideas Improve PyPI package license detection
The goal of this project is to improve PyPI package license detection across the board.
While scancode-toolkit's PyPI package detection is pretty good, there a few repeat cases
where license information is not properly gathered from PyPI 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, creating new license mappings and possibly working with upstream maintainers to improve their license declarations. The approach should be to start with a complete data set of all package manifests and find patterns of license issues and establish the baseline, possibly with classifiers and ML. The end results should be a significant improvement to the license detection quality for the PyPI packages.
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- Intermediate
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- Python
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- @pombredanne https://github.com/pombredanne
- @majurg https://github.com/majurg