Software license-based code suggestions
A system for providing code suggestions according to licensing criteria is described. The system comprises computing devices that implement a code suggestion service. The code suggestion service receives a request that specifies licensing criteria via an interface of the code suggestion service. The code suggestion service determines respective licenses for respective source code files according to a source code attribution database from parsing the plurality of source code files that are applicable to the plurality of source code files. The code suggestion service generates a set of candidate code suggestions based, at least in part, on the plurality of source code files. The code suggestion service determines code suggestions from the set of candidate code suggestions that satisfy the licensing criteria based on the respective licenses. The code suggestion service provides the code suggestions determined from the set of candidate source code files that satisfy the licensing criteria.
1. A system, comprising:
one or more computing devices that implement a code suggestion service configured to:
receive a request that specifies one or more licensing criteria via an interface of the code suggestion service;
determine respective licenses for respective ones of a plurality of source code files according to a source code attribution database that comprises indications of the respective licenses identified from parsing the plurality of source code files that are applicable to the plurality of source code files;
generate a set of candidate code suggestions for received code input based, at least in part, on the plurality of source code files;
determine one or more code suggestions from the set of candidate code suggestions that satisfy the one or more licensing criteria based, at least in part, on the respective licenses for respective ones of the plurality of source code files; and
provide the one or more code suggestions determined from the set of candidate source code files that satisfy the one or more licensing criteria.
2. The system of claim 1 , further comprising one or more additional computing devices that implement a license attribution service configured to:
identify the plurality of source code files for license attribution;
parse the plurality of source code files to extract one or more text blocks;
compare the one or more text blocks to a plurality of licenses to determine similarity scores between respective ones of the one or more text blocks and the plurality of licenses;
based on the similarity scores, identify one or more of the plurality of licenses that are applicable to individual ones of the plurality of source code files; and
store, to the source code attribution database, the indications of the respective licenses applicable to the respective ones of the plurality of source code files.
3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the license attribution service is further configured to:
retrieve the plurality of licenses from a license repository; and
store the plurality of licenses to a data store.
4. The system of claim 2 , wherein to compare the one or more text blocks to the plurality of licenses to determine the similarity scores between the respective ones of the one or more text blocks and the plurality of licenses, the license attribution service is configured to:
identify strings of the one or more text blocks that match with strings of the plurality of licenses; and
determine the similarity scores based on a number of the identified of the one or more text blocks that match with strings of the plurality of licenses.
5. The system of claim 1 , further comprising one or more computing devices configured to implement a database builder service configured to:
obtain license format data from a license data repository;
determine respective text types of respective portions of the license format data;
annotate the respective portions with the determined respective text types; and
generate at least a portion of the source code attribution database according to the annotated license format data.
6. A method, comprising:
performing, by one or more computing devices that implement a code suggestion service:
determining respective licenses for respective ones of a plurality of source code files according to a source code attribution database that comprises indications of the respective licenses for the respective source code files;
generating a set of candidate code suggestions for received code input based, at least in part, on the plurality of source code files;
determining one or more code suggestions from the set of candidate code suggestions that satisfy one or more licensing criteria; and
providing the one or more code suggestions determined from the set of candidate source code files that satisfy the one or more licensing criteria.
7. The method of claim 6 , further comprising:
identifying the plurality of source code files for license attribution;
parsing the plurality of source code files to extract one or more text blocks;
comparing the one or more text blocks to a plurality of licenses to determine similarity scores between respective ones of the one or more text blocks and the plurality of licenses;
based on the similarity scores, identifying one or more of the plurality of licenses that are applicable to individual ones of the plurality of source code files; and
storing, to the source code attribution database, the indications of the respective licenses applicable to the respective ones of the plurality of source code files.
8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the one or more text blocks comprise code comments included as part of the one or more source code files.
9. The method of claim 7 , further comprising:
retrieving the plurality of licenses from a license repository; and
storing the plurality of licenses to a data store.
10. The method of claim 7 , wherein comparing the one or more text blocks to the plurality of licenses to determine the similarity scores between the respective ones of the one or more text blocks and the plurality of licenses comprises:
identifying strings of the one or more text blocks that match with strings of the plurality of licenses; and
determining the similarity scores based on a number of the identified of the one or more text blocks that match with strings of the plurality of licenses.
11. The method of claim 6 , further comprising:
obtaining license format data from a license data repository;
determining respective text types of respective portions of the license format data;
annotating the respective portions with the determined respective text types; and
generating at least a portion of the source code attribution database according to the annotated license format data.
12. The method of claim 6 , wherein determining the one or more code suggestions comprises:
filtering the set of candidate code suggestions to exclude code suggestions that do not satisfy the one or more licensing criteria.
13. The method of claim 6 , wherein the licensing criteria comprises one or more of intellectual property limitations, open source requirements, monetization limitations, reproduction limitations.
14. One or more computer-readable storage media storing instructions that, when executed on or across one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
determine respective licenses for respective ones of a plurality of source code files according to a source code attribution database that comprises indications of the respective licenses for the respective source code files;
generate a set of candidate code suggestions for received code input based, at least in part, on the plurality of source code files;
determine one or more code suggestions from the set of candidate code suggestions that satisfy one or more licensing criteria; and
provide the one or more code suggestions determined from the set of candidate source code files that satisfy the one or more licensing criteria.
15. The one or more computer-readable storage media of claim 14 , further comprising instructions that, when executed on or across the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
identify the plurality of source code files for license attribution;
parse the plurality of source code files to extract one or more text blocks;
compare the one or more text blocks to a plurality of licenses to determine similarity scores between respective ones of the one or more text blocks and the plurality of licenses;
based on the similarity scores, identify one or more of the plurality of licenses that are applicable to individual ones of the plurality of source code files; and
store, to the source code attribution database, the indications of the respective licenses applicable to the respective ones of the plurality of source code files.
16. The one or more computer-readable storage media of claim 15 , wherein the one or more text blocks comprise code comments included as part of the one or more source code files.
17. The one or more computer-readable storage media of claim 14 , further comprising instructions that, when executed on or across the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
retrieve the plurality of licenses from a license repository; and
store the plurality of licenses to a data store.
18. The one or more computer-readable storage media of claim 15 , wherein to compare the one or more text blocks to the plurality of licenses to determine the similarity scores between the respective ones of the one or more text blocks and the plurality of licenses comprises, the one or more computer-readable storage media further comprise instructions that, when executed on or across the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
identify strings of the one or more text blocks that match with strings of the plurality of licenses; and determine the similarity scores based on a number of the identified of the one or more text blocks that match with strings of the plurality of licenses.
19. The one or more computer-readable storage media of claim 14 , further comprising instructions that, when executed on or across the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
obtain license format data from a license data repository;
determine respective text types of respective portions of the license format data;
annotate the respective portions with the determined respective text types; and
generate at least a portion of the source code attribution database according to the annotated license format data.
20. The one or more computer-readable storage media of claim 14 , further comprising instructions that, when executed on or across the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
filtering the set of candidate code suggestions to exclude code suggestions that do not satisfy the one or more licensing criteria.