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Google Summer of Code
We have applied for the Google Summer of Code 2018 as organization. This lists the topics so far we heve collected for this application.
Mentors
* Maximilian: Maximilian Huber, mail@maximilian-huber.de * Kate: Kate Stewart, kstewart@linuxofundation.org * Michael: Michael C. Jaeger, mcj@mcj.de
Project #1: Lightweight Scanner
Description: Add a new lightweight Scanner which is able find licenses. e.g. by taking the SPDX license list as input and figure out by itself how to detect them in source code. Possible Mentor(s): Maximilian, Michael
Project #2: get SPDX file by command line and REST API
Description: https://github.com/fossology/fossology/issues/592 Possible Mentor(s): Kate, Michael
Project #3: Graphical representation of license contents / graphical statistics
Description: It would be nice to see the the overall contents of a project at one glance. Possible Mentor(s): Maximilian, Michael
Project #4: Fields for SPDX metadata, update to latest SPDX 2.1 and license list 3.0
Description: Possible Mentor(s): Maximilian, Kate, Michael
More project Ideas:
* REST, throwing a SHA for upload there and get SPDX back (in case it is there already) (Programming Language Analysis plugin) * Work on new clean-field implementation / ideas for new central hub * Make scanners modular / independent * Cool search * More intelligent / configurable decider
