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Week 02 Meetings and Activities

Integration of ORT with FOSSology Sync Meeting 2​

(June 9, 2025)

Attendees​

Discussion​

  • Participated in the second weekly sync meeting with mentor.
  • Shared updates on my interaction with the ORT community and the guidance I received around integrating external scanners.
  • Brought up a key question about how Nomos works as a standalone tool and whether it can be invoked directly.
  • Mentor pointed me to the right resources for understanding Nomos as a standalone tool — including how to build it, use its flags, and interpret its output.

Progress​

  • Successfully built Nomos as a standalone tool on my local system.
  • Tested Nomos independently on sample files to understand its CLI interface and license detection capabilities.
  • Ran Nomos with different flags to evaluate its functionality and output formats:
    • -J: Produces output in JSON, ideal for structured parsing.
    • -S: Outputs highlighting information in plain text, showing the locations of detected licenses and keywords within files — including details like the position (at), length, and index of each match
    • -l: Ensures full file paths are included in the output.
    • -c / -d: Used for specifying config and scan directories respectively.
  • This hands-on testing gave me a clear idea of how to invoke Nomos programmatically and parse its results for integration.

Next Steps​

  • Begin creating the initial skeleton or wrapper code to invoke Nomos from within the ORT scanning pipeline.
  • Continue referring to existing ORT scanner plugin implementations for structure and integration best practices.