Environments
AboutCode tools support a large number of licenses, package ecosystems, programming languages, operating systems, binary and archive formats, and vulnerability data sources, all identified using Package-URL (PURL) or SPDX license expressions.
Licenses - Get started with license compliance...
AboutCode tracks over 2,500+ curated licenses across 12 categories. Browse all 2,500+ licenses in the LicenseDB. Industry-leading license detection is backed by over 35,000 license notices used as detection rules.
Package ecosystems - Get started with software identification...
The AboutCode package database and scanners track millions of packages from most package ecosystems.
Software vulnerabilities - Get started with software security...
AboutCode collects, correlates, and improves vulnerabilities from multiple advisory data sources, privileging upstream data.




















Vulnerability severity and other reference data - Get started with software security...
AboutCode imports vulnerability reference data in key industry formats, mapping these to PURL.
Operating systems - Get started with software identification...
AboutCode tools support packages and distributions across major server, desktop, and mobile operating systems.
Programming languages - Get started with software identification...
AboutCode tools detect and analyze code across many programming languages.
Binary formats - Get started with software identification...
AboutCode tools analyze compiled binary, bytecode, and minified code file formats to identify origin, dependencies, and embedded components.
Archive formats - Get started with software identification...
AboutCode supports extraction of most archive, compressed, package, and disk image file formats.






























