ScanCode Workbench now has basic support for tracking and viewing license policies that have been
applied to a ScanCode Toolkit scan. In order for
things to work, your initial scan must be run with the --license-policy
option. For more
information, see the :ref:`license_policy_plugin` section of the ScanCode Toolkit ReadTheDocs.
While the :ref:`license_policy_plugin` can be customized with any number of custom fields and values, ScanCode Workbench currently only supports a pre-defined set of policy labels.
license_key | label |
---|---|
scancode_license_key | Approved License |
scancode_license_key | Prohibited License |
scancode_license_key | Recommended License |
scancode_license_key | Restricted License |
This means in order to take advantage of ScanCode Workbench's policy features, your
license-policy.yml
needs to have license_key
and label
fields at the very least.
Additionally, in order to take advantage of policy visualizations, label
values must be
one of the 4 above values: Approved License, Prohibited License, Recommended License or Restricted
License. Later versions of ScanCode Workbench will eventually evolve to support more dynamic policy
values.
Here is a simple example of a valid license-policy.yml
file:
license_policies: - license_key: apache-2.0 label: Approved License - license_key: apache-1.1 label: Prohibited License - license_key: lgpl-2.1-plus label: Recommended License - license_key: cpl-1.0 label: Restricted License
After running a scan with that particular license-policy.yml
file, viewing the scan in ScanCode
Workbench will look like the following:
As you can see, files which have detected licenses that fall under a particular policy will be shown in the JSTree view with specific icons. This way, you are able to quickly see what files fall under a specific policy.
Additionally, policy details can be found in the scan data view in their own column: License Policy. This column has been added to both the "Origin" column set and "License info" column set.