Merge branch 'main' of ../commoncode-filter into fix-ignore-pre-scan-plugin

Signed-off-by: Ayan Sinha Mahapatra <asmahapatra@aboutcode.org>

Author: AyanSinhaMahapatra

pyproject-commoncode.toml

@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ version = "32.4.2"
 authors = [
     { name = "nexB. Inc. and others", email = "info@aboutcode.org" },
 ]
-license = "Apache-2.0"
+license = { text = "Apache-2.0" }
+
 
 # description must be on ONE line https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/1390
 description = "Set of common utilities, originally split from ScanCode"

src/commoncode/README.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+CommonCode
+==========
+
+- license: Apache-2.0
+- copyright: copyright (c) nexB. Inc. and others
+- homepage_url: https://github.com/aboutcode-org/commoncode
+- keywords: utilities, scancode-toolkit, commoncode
+
+Commoncode provides a set of common functions and utilities for handling various things like paths,
+dates, files and hashes. It started as library in scancode-toolkit.
+Visit https://aboutcode.org and https://github.com/aboutcode-org/ for support and download.
+
+
+To install this package use::
+
+    pip install commoncode
+
+
+Alternatively, to set up a development environment::
+
+    ./configure --dev
+    source venv/bin/activate
+
+To run unit tests::
+
+    pytest -vvs -n 2
+
+To clean up development environment::
+
+    ./configure --clean
+