Analyzer
The analyzer is a Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tool that determines the dependencies of software projects inside the specified version-controlled input directory (-i).
Advisor
The advisor retrieves security advisories from configured services.
Downloader
Taking an ORT result file with an analyzer result as the input (-i), the downloader retrieves the source code of all contained packages to the specified output directory (-o).
Scanner
This tool wraps underlying license / copyright scanners with a common API so all supported scanners can be used in the same way to easily run them and compare their results.
Evaluator
The evaluator is used to perform custom license policy checks on scan results.
Reporter
The reporter generates a wide variety of documents in different formats from ORT result files.