aboutcode-manager: A JavaScript repository from Rishav159

AboutCode Manager provides an advanced visual UI to help you quickly evaluate license and other notices identified by [ScanCode] (https://github.com/nexB/scancode-toolkit/) and record your conclusion about the effective license(s) for a component. AboutCode Manager is based on Electron and will be the primary desktop/GUI tool for using nexB’s AboutCode tools. This app works on Windows, OS X and Linux operating systems.

The ScanCode toolkit detects licenses, copyrights and other interesting information in your code. The AboutCode Manager allows you take the scan results from the ScanCode Toolkit and create components. By creating these components within in your codebase, you are creating a software inventory of your product. The conclusions (Concluded License, Concluded Owner, etc.) you make when creating your component can then be exported to a JSON file.

Using

You can download the latest release for your operating system or build it yourself (see below). Once downloaded, you can find AboutCode-Manager under dist/AboutCode-Manager-<os>-x64-<version>.
AboutCode Manager is only compatible with scans from [ScanCode Toolkit v2.0.0-RC1] (https://github.com/nexB/scancode-toolkit/releases) and above.
Scans imported into the app need to contain the file information data. Therefore, the -i option needs to be used in your ScanCode command. For example:

./scancode -clip

See the [wiki] (https://github.com/nexB/aboutcode-manager/wiki) for more documentation on how to use the app.

Building

You'll need Node.js (which comes with npm) installed on your computer in order to build this app. Then, from your command line:

# Clone this repository
git clone https://github.com/nexB/aboutcode-manager.git
# Go into the repository
cd aboutcode-manager
# Install dependencies and run the app
npm install && npm start

Release instructions

Build dist target:

$ ./build.sh

After building is done, you can find AboutCode-Manager under dist/AboutCode-Manager-<os>-x64-<version>. Archives (tar.gz and .zip) are also built.

Testing

Test functionality using:

$ npm test

License

Apache-2.0 with an acknowledgement required to accompany the scan output.
Public domain CC-0 for reference datasets.
Multiple licenses (LGPL, MIT, BSD, etc.) for third-party components.

See the NOTICE file for more details.

Support

If you have a question, a suggestion or find a bug, enter an issue.