Exempt the provenance-audit tool from the ScanCode pass

It names license identifiers in its verdict maps by design — the same
documented false-positive category as the other license tooling.

Signed-off-by: Martin Vogel <martin.vogel@datadice.io>
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Martin Vogel
2026-06-12 14:44:24 +02:00
committed by DeusData
parent 578ac55664
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{
"_comment": "License allow-list for the CI license gate (scripts/license-gate.sh). A single detected SPDX id outside this list fails the pipeline. Additions to this list are deliberate, reviewed changes never add copyleft (GPL/LGPL/AGPL/EPL/SSPL) without a maintainer decision.",
"_comment": "License allow-list for the CI license gate (scripts/license-gate.sh). A single detected SPDX id outside this list fails the pipeline. Additions to this list are deliberate, reviewed changes \u2014 never add copyleft (GPL/LGPL/AGPL/EPL/SSPL) without a maintainer decision.",
"allowed_spdx_ids": [
"MIT",
"MIT-0",
@@ -16,12 +16,13 @@
"LicenseRef-scancode-public-domain",
"LicenseRef-scancode-public-domain-disclaimer"
],
"_ignored_paths_comment": "Path prefixes (relative to the staged scan tree) excluded from the gate. Use ONLY for documented false positives. Justifications: the license tooling itself (gate scripts + this policy file) necessarily names prohibited licenses; gen-third-party-notices.sh echoes license terminology; src/discover/discover.c contains a license-FILENAME classification list (LICENSE-MIT, LICENSE-APACHE, ...) for file discovery, which ScanCode reads as license references.",
"_ignored_paths_comment": "Path prefixes (relative to the staged scan tree) excluded from the gate. Use ONLY for documented false positives. Justifications: the license tooling itself (gate scripts + this policy file) necessarily names prohibited licenses; gen-third-party-notices.sh echoes license terminology; audit-license-provenance.py names licenses in its verdict maps; src/discover/discover.c contains a license-FILENAME classification list (LICENSE-MIT, LICENSE-APACHE, ...) for file discovery, which ScanCode reads as license references.",
"ignored_paths": [
"tree/scripts/license-policy.json",
"tree/scripts/license-gate-check.py",
"tree/scripts/license-gate.sh",
"tree/scripts/gen-third-party-notices.sh",
"tree/src/discover/discover.c"
"tree/src/discover/discover.c",
"tree/scripts/audit-license-provenance.py"
]
}