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25 changes: 15 additions & 10 deletions README.rst
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Expand Up @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ LicenseDB is likely the largest collection of software licenses available on
Earth and maybe beyond.

LicenseDB is a free and open database of mostly all the software licenses, in
particular all the open-source software licenses, with over 2000 curated licenses
particular all the open source software licenses, with over 2000 curated licenses
texts and their metadata.

LicenseDB is built from the ScanCode Toolkit license dataset. ScanCode Toolkit
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LicenseDB is an essential reference license resource for license compliance and
SBOMs. LicenseDB includes all the SPDX and OSI licenses together with an extended
curated collection of other licenses and license metadata. These licenses are
carefully reviewed and curated and continusouly updated by an open community of
carefully reviewed and curated and continuously updated by an open community of
contributors.

LicenseDB is available as a web site, an JSON or YAML API and a git repository
LicenseDB is available as a web site, a JSON or YAML API and a git repository
making it easy to reuse and integrate in tools that need a database of reference
software licenses.

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- has a License Name
- has a Version or Published Date
- has a a web page dedicated to the license, or is contained in a source file
- has a web page dedicated to the license, or is contained in a source file
- has a custodian


Browse
------

The web site is published at: https://scancode-licensedb.aboutcode.org/

You can search the licenses by name, key and other attributes.

This is updated daily by a GitHub action with updates from scancode-toolkit
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for instance: https://scancode-licensedb.aboutcode.org/gpl-2.0.LICENSE


This index and the static website is also available offline with ScanCode Toolkit as a
This index and the static website are also available offline with ScanCode Toolkit as a
console script available at configure/install. Sample command::

scancode-license-data --path PATH
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This git repository contains the original and editable source files:
https://github.com/aboutcode-org/scancode-toolit
https://github.com/aboutcode-org/scancode-toolkit

- for the text of a license and the metadata of a license as YAML frontmatter, for instance at
https://github.com/aboutcode-org/scancode-toolit/tree/develop/src/licensedcode/data/licenses/gpl-2.0.LICENSE
https://github.com/aboutcode-org/scancode-toolkit/tree/develop/src/licensedcode/data/licenses/gpl-2.0.LICENSE


Support
--------

- Chat with us at: https://gitter.im/aboutcode-org/discuss
- Report issues or ask questions at: https://github.com/aboutcode-org/scancode-toolit/issues and
- Report issues or ask questions at: https://github.com/aboutcode-org/scancode-toolkit/issues and
https://github.com/aboutcode-org/scancode-licensedb/issues
- Visit https://www.aboutcode.org/ for more open source and open data projects.

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SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0 AND Apache-2.0

https://github.com/aboutcode-org/scancode-licensedb

Copyright (c) nexB Inc. and others.
ScanCode is a trademark of nexB Inc.

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ScanCode LicenseDB software is licensed under the Apache License version 2.0.
You may not use this software except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at: http://apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
You may obtain a copy of the License at: https://apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed
under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR
CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
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ScanCode LicenseDB is generated with ScanCode Toolkit. The database and its contents
are provided on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND,
either express or implied.

No content from ScanCode LicenseDB should be considered or used as legal advice.
Consult an attorney for any legal advice.

Visit https://github.com/aboutcode-org/scancode-licensedb for support.

ScanCode Toolkit is a free Software Composition Analysis tool from nexB Inc. and
others.
Visit https://github.com/aboutcode-org/scancode-toolit for support and download.

Visit https://github.com/aboutcode-org/scancode-toolkit for support and download.