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 # Net-Project-Package-Extractor
 
-A command line application that extracts all nuget information from .csproj files in a nested directory structure and saves the result to a spreadsheet.
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-## usage
+The purpose of the Net-Project-Package-Extractor is process all the .csproj files in a directory (and subdirectories) and extract nuget information that is saved to a spreadsheet. This can be used as an appendix to the ECSS Software Reuse File. The Net-Project-Package-Extractor is available on [Nuget](https://www.nuget.org/packages/nppe) as a dotnet tool called `nppe`.
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+Please read the [Quick Start](https://github.com/RHEAGROUP/Net-Project-Package-Extractor/wiki/Quick-Start) to find out how to use the `nppe` dotnet tool
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+## Build Status
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+GitHub actions are used to build and test the library
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+Branch | Build Status
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+Master | ![Build Status](https://github.com/RHEAGROUP/Net-Project-Package-Extractor/actions/workflows/CodeQuality.yml/badge.svg?branch=master)
+Development | ![Build Status](https://github.com/RHEAGROUP/Net-Project-Package-Extractor/actions/workflows/CodeQuality.yml/badge.svg?branch=development)
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+# License
+
+The VCD-Generator libraries are provided to the community under the Apache License 2.0.
+
+# Contributions
+
+Contributions to the code-base are welcome. However, before we can accept your contributions we ask any contributor to sign the Contributor License Agreement (CLA) and send this digitaly signed to s.gerene@rheagroup.com. You can find the CLA's in the CLA folder.
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