aboutcode-org / aboutcode-org/scancode-toolkit
Build a license index with a subset of licenses
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Description
## Short Description
Add the possibility to add the license index with a subset of licenses.
## Possible Labels
- new feature
## Select Category
- [X] Enhancement
- [ ] Add License/Copyright
- [ ] Scan Feature
- [ ] Packaging
- [ ] Documentation
- [ ] Expand Support
- [ ] Other
## **Describe the Update**
It might be good to be able to build an index with a subset of licenses. One use case would be to test rules of a certain category, by excluding other categories (for example, excluding all 2-aho rules). Another use case would be to exclude licenses for memory constraints, or to be able to do a big sweep for optimization purposes.
## **How This Feature will help you/your organization**
I don't know yet.
## **Possible Solution/Implementation Details**
Pass a configuration file where I can either exclude individual files or entire categories to the reindexing script.
## **Example/Links if Any**
## **Can you help with this Feature**
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