This post is special, in the sense that it marks an important event in my life as a software developer. But let's start from the beginning... oelint-adv When you use bitbake/YOCTO on a frequent basis, you might have are checked out my linting tool for these file called oelint-adv . This tool parses bitbake file and checks for several rules and best practices when it comes to working within this ecosystem. Initially I thought about using the original bitbake parser , which is available as open source licensed under GPL-2.0 - Unfortunately it requires more or less a whole workspace setup, including all layers a.s.o. As this was meant as a quick check tool to be used in CI or git pre-commit hooks, I was pretty sure that this wouldn't work, so I wrote my own parser for bitbake files, till then exclusively used with the linting tool. Scancode-toolkit All of a sudden, I got a few weeks back a ticket on my GitHub repo that somebody else had more or less the same issue - they wanted t