Contributors per cycle
Accepted projects each year, against the median organization that year
View as table
| AboutCode | Median organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 0 | 4 |
| 2017 | 4 | 4 |
| 2018 | 0 | 3 |
| 2019 | 3 | 4 |
| 2020 | 5 | 4 |
| 2021 | 4 | 4 |
| 2022 | 5 | 3 |
| 2023 | 2 | 4 |
| 2024 | 4 | 4 |
| 2025 | 5 | 5 |
| 2026 | 2 | 4 |
In GSoC 2026
AboutCode
AboutCode.org is a community of open source developers who are trying to make open source easier to use by providing open source tools to discover, identify and track open source components (aka. Software Composition Analysis – SCA). This includes tools, data and standards for code origin, FOSS licenses and security vulnerabilities.
Contributors in 2026
2
−3 from 2025
Projects since 2016
34
3.8 a cycle on average
Cycles
9 of 11
8-cycle streak
Rank in 2026
#161
of 183, 0.2% of slots
Mentors
10
for 5 projects in 2025
Stack and topics
Each one has its own page of organizations and trends
Technologies
# Topics
Quick answers
- Is AboutCode in GSoC 2026?
- Yes, with 2 contributors.
- How long has it taken part?
- 9 of 11 cycles since 2016, first in 2017, with a 8-cycle streak running.
- How many contributors does it usually take?
- 3.8 a cycle on average, 34 in total. Its largest cycle was 2020, with 5.
- What does it build with?
- Python, JavaScript, C, C++, Shell Script, Static Analysis and 9 more.
Accepted projects
2 projects in 2026 · All 34 projects since 2016
ScanCode-Toolkit : Mark required phrases for rules automatically using NLP/AI
Kaushik Kumar
ScanCode-Toolkit relies on "required phrases" to prevent false positive license detections, but 74% of its rules currently lack this protection. To...
VulnerableCode Insights
Sampurna Pyne(Samk)
Currently, VulnerableCode lacks built-in insights to demonstrate its effectiveness. This project addresses this by integrating a telemetry dashboard...
Create file-system tree view for project scans
AayushKumarMentored by Omkar Phansopkar, TG1999, Thomas Druez +1
The current directory browsing experience in ScanCode.io is limited to viewing one folder at a time, which becomes inefficient and cumbersome for...
Have variable license sections in license rules
Alokkumar97Mentored by Philippe Ombredanne, ayansinha
In this project, the main goal was to simplify license rules while allowing for greater flexibility by supporting extra words and variable components...
ScanCode.io: Update SCIO/SCTK for use in CI/CD
Manit SinghMentored by dmclark, AvishrantSh, Thomas Druez +1
This project is about simplifying it to use ScanCode Toolkit and ScanCode.io in common CI/CD systems such as GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, and...
VulnerableCode: On-demand live evaluation of packages and integration with VulnTotal
Michael Ehab MikhailMentored by Keshav Priyadarshi, TG1999
Currently, VulnerableCode runs importers in bulk where all the data from advisories are imported (and reimported) at once and stored to be displayed...
Add ability to store/query downloaded packages
Varsha U NMentored by Philippe Ombredanne, ayansinha
This project focuses to enhance SCIO by introducing a feature to store and manage packages that are downloaded and scanned. The goal is to add...
VulnerableCode/Vulntotal: Browser Extension
Michael Ehab MikhailMentored by ziad hany, Keshav Priyadarshi, Omkar Phansopkar
Implement a Firefox/Chrome browser extension that enables users to use VulnTotal from their browser. The idea is to use Pyodide to run the existing...
Add more data sources and mine the graph to find correlations between vulnerabilities
Ambuj KulshreshthaMentored by ziad hany, Keshav Priyadarshi, TG1999
There is a large number of pending tickets for data sources. This project focuses on adding more and more vulnerability data sources and consume...
Enrich SBOM data based on OSSF Security Score Card
Pranay DasMentored by Philippe Ombredanne, ayansinha, TG1999 +1
I am developing a pypi package which will be responsible for calling OpenSSF scorecard API or CLI with an open-source github link and fetching the...
Compute summary for all detected packages.
swastkkMentored by Philippe Ombredanne, ayansinha, AvishrantSh +1
The project aims to improve scanning accuracy by computing summary and license clarity scores for each package and its files, rather than for the...
Creating Pure-Python Fallback Dependencies
Jay KumarMentored by Philippe Ombredanne, ayansinhamahapatra, Jonathan Yang
Currently sctk uses pyahocorasick intbitset for license detection & lxml for creating cyclonedx-xml output formats. All three of them are currently...
Decentralized vulnerability data peer-review
ziad hanyMentored by Philippe Ombredanne, Keshav Priyadarshi, TG1999
Software packages vulnerabilities : let's say we have a security team that wants to track new vulnerabilities in the open source software packages ,...
Scancode.io/Scancode Toolkit: Create web application to scan and review a single license text
lf32Mentored by Philippe Ombredanne, ayansinha, AvishrantSh +1
Create a web app and JSON Rest API to detect any text for license, and submit bugs (SCTK-aaS). This project is to create a web-based mini application...
Scancode Workbench improvements
Omkar PhansopkarMentored by Philippe Ombredanne, Steven Esser, TG1999 +1
Refactor workbench to a React + Typescript implementation and improve various sections of the application including Table view, file uploads, data...
Cross-validate vulnerability coverage of VulnerableCode. VulnTotal Project!
Keshav PriyadarshiMentored by TG1999, Hritik V, Shivam Sandbhor
VulnerableCode is a unique project that collates FOSS vulnerability data from numerous sources. This VulnTotal project will help cross-validate the...
Extending license detection to use licenses external to ScanCode Toolkit
Kevin JiMentored by Philippe Ombredanne, ayansinha, Jonathan Yang
When doing license detection, ScanCode uses the licenses and rules in the ScanCode LicenseDB. The goal of this project is to extend the capabilities...
Add more data sources and mine the graph to find correlations between vulnerabilities
ziad hanyMentored by TG1999, Hritik V, Shivam Sandbhor
There is a large number of pending tickets for data sources. We want to search for more vulnerability data sources and consume them . So I will...
Integration of Alternate Code Analysis Tools
Avishrant SharmaMentored by Tushar Goel, Thomas Druez, pombredanne
This project aims to provide a way to implement and integrate the likes of Google Licenseclassifier, GitHub Licensee, and other license detection and...
Integrate VirtualCodebase with Deltacode
Pratik DeyMentored by Tushar Goel, pombredanne, Steven Esser-1
The goal of this proposal is to refactor DeltaCode to use Scancode-Toolkit’s Virtual Codebase class. This refactoring will allow DeltaCode to be a...
Detect Unknown Licenses and Indirect License references in ScanCode
Akanksha GargMentored by ayansinha, pombredanne
Scancode uses various different techniques to detect licenses based on various multiple sequence alignments ,algorithms ,automations etc. but the...
VulnerableCode importers refactoring and addition
Hritik VijayMentored by Shivam Sandbhor, pombredanne
VulnerableCode has a large number of pending tickets that require adding more data sources of known vulnerabilities (aka. importers). As importers...
Add additional package metadata and lockfile parsers
ROHIT POTTERMentored by Jonathan Yang, Steven Esser
ScanCode is an opensource software and detects licenses, copyrights, package manifests & dependencies and more by scanning code. This allows to...
Enhancement of VulnerableCode
Shivam SandbhorMentored by Philippe Ombredanne
Software development is undergoing a gradual increase in pace. The direct result of this is more software vulnerabilities. Countless vulnerabilities...
Remove legacy Python code - Support latest Python 3.x - Improve 3rd party package provisioning
Abhishek KumarMentored by Philippe Ombredanne, Steven Esser
Python 2.7 has already retired and it will no longer be maintained therefore it will better to drop the support of Python 2. It will also include...
Improve ScanCode License detection accuracy, by leveraging the ClearlyDefined dataset of Scans
ayansinha23Mentored by Philippe Ombredanne, Arnav Mandal
ScanCode license detection is using multiple techniques to accurately detect licenses based on automatons, inverted indexes, and multiple sequence...
Fetchcode : A smart code downloader
Tushar GoelMentored by Steven Esser
The goal of this project is to create a smart tool/library that provides a universal package and code download from VCS, web, ftp, etc.
Approximately Similar file detection in DeltaCode
Arnav MandalMentored by Jonathan Yang, Steven Esser
DeltaCode is a tool to compare and report scan differences. It takes JSON files as an input which is the output of ScanCode-toolkit as well. When...
Packaging and Docker Image Creation
AyushJain0402Mentored by Philippe Ombredanne, Ranvir Singh
About Code software scancode-toolkit currently is not available as distro's package and there is no official docker image available which is must...
Port Scancode to Python 3
Abhishek_KumarMentored by Philippe Ombredanne
Since Python 2.7 will retire in few months and no longer maintained.So it needs to be ported to python 3 and it must passed on both version of...
Building ScanCode live scan server
Raju Koushik GorantlaMentored by Phil Ombredanne
Building a project which uses ScanCode as a library in a web and REST API application that allows you to scan code on demand by entering a URL and...
Live scan server to scan licenses using URL and file uploader
Ranvir SinghMentored by Phil Ombredanne
This project is based on the building a web app that can take the user input of the plain-text code or it can take the input as the URL from where...
Package Vulnerability Data Feed & Scanner
Kartik SibalMentored by Thomas Druez, Steven Esser, Phil Ombredanne
The usage of any open source software is primarily guided by the licenses binding it. Individuals/Organisations, generally make the decision of using...
Plugin architecture for ScanCode
Yash D. SarafMentored by Phil Ombredanne
This project’s purpose is to create a decoupled plugin architecture for scancode such that it can handle plugins at different stages of a scan and...
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