Extend ABOUT files to support products

[pombredanne]

I would like to add a new "is_product" attribute so we can track a ABOUT file in SCIO and SCTK as being for a DejaCode product.
With this we will be able to know that a scan in SCIO or SCTK is for a specific product and use this information when uploading to DejaCode

• Add support for ABOUT file "is_product" in AboutCode toolkit
• Add support for ABOUT file "is_product" in ScanCode toolkit
• Add support for ABOUT file "is_product" in ScanCode.io
• Add support for ABOUT file "is_product" in DejaCode

Here is how a minimal product ABOUT file could look like:

about_resource: .
is_product: yes
name: My Super Product
version: 1.0
description: Short description
homepage_url: https://internal/super-product/home.html

It could contain of course more details, like VCS repos references, author team pointers, etc.
The ABOUT spec is at https://github.com/nexB/aboutcode-toolkit/blob/develop/docs/source/specification.rst

The name would map to a product name in DejaCode.

[chinyeungli]

@pombredanne just to verify the is_product attribute is a boolean value, correct?
In addition, can you draft a formal description of what is_product is so that the spec can be updated?

[mjherzog]

There are certainly use cases where the is_product field would need to allow multiple values because you use code from a repo in multiple products.