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 AboutCode is a family of FOSS projects to uncover data ... about software:
 
-- where does the code come from? which software package?
-- what is its license? copyright?
-- is the code vulnerable, maintained, well coded?
-- what are its dependencies, are there vulneribilities/licensing issues?
+- Where does the code come from? Which software package?
+- What is its license? Copyright?
+- Is the code vulnerable, maintained, andd well-coded?
+- What are its dependencies, are there vulnerabilities/licensing issues?
 
-All these are questions that are important to answer: there are millions
-of free and open source software components available on the web for reuse.
+All these are important questions to answer: millions of free and open-source 
+software components are available on the web for reuse.
 
-Knowing where a software package comes from, what its license is and whether it is
-vulnerable should be a problem of the past such that everyone can safely consume
-more free and open source software. We support not only open source software, but
-also open data, generated and curated by our applications.
+Knowing where a software package comes from, its license, and whether it is 
+vulnerable should be a problem of the past so that everyone can safely 
+consume more free and open-source software. We support open-source software and 
+open data generated and curated by our applications.
 
-> **_NOTE:_** This is a repository with information on aboutcode open source activities and not
+
+> **_NOTE:_** This repository contains  information on aboutcode open source activities and not
   the actual code repository. See the [projects section](https://github.com/nexB/aboutcode#projects)
   below for links to all the code repositories of our projects with a brief overview and our
   [wiki](https://github.com/nexB/aboutcode/wiki) if you are looking to participate.
@@ -47,62 +48,61 @@ Each AboutCode project has its own repository:
 
 - **[ScanCode Toolkit](https://github.com/nexB/scancode-toolkit)**: a set of code scanning tools to detect
   the origin and license of code and dependencies. ScanCode now uses a plug-in architecture to run a series
-  of scan-related tools in one process flow. This is the most popular project and is used by 100's of software
-  teams . The lead maintainer is @pombredanne
+  of scan-related tools in one process flow. This is the most popular project used by hundreds of software
+  teams. The lead maintainer is @pombredanne
 
-- **[Scancode.io](https://github.com/nexB/scancode.io)**: is a web-based and API to run and review scans in
-  rich scripted pipelines, on different kinds of containers, docker images, package archives, manifests etc,
-  to get information on licenses, copyrights, source, vulneribilities. The lead maintainer is @tdruez
+- **[Scancode.io](https://github.com/nexB/scancode.io)**: is a web-based API to run and review scans in
+  rich scripted pipelines on different kinds of containers, docker images, package archives, manifests etc.,
+  to get information on licenses, copyrights, sources, and vulnerabilities. The lead maintainer is @tdruez.
 
 - **[VulnerableCode](https://github.com/nexB/vulnerablecode)**: is a web-based API and 
   database to collect and track all the known software package vulnerabilities, with
-  affected and fixed packages, references and a standalone tool Vulntotal to compare
-  this vulneribility information across similar tools. This is maintained by @tg1999 and @pombredanne
+  affected and fixed packages, references, and a standalone tool Vulntotal to compare
+  this vulnerability information across similar tools. This is maintained by @tg1999 and @pombredanne.
 
-- **[univers](https://github.com/nexB/univers)** is a package to parse and compare
+- **[Univers](https://github.com/nexB/univers)** is a package to parse and compare
   all the package versions and all the ranges.
 
-- **[purlDB](https://github.com/nexB/purldb)** consists of tools to create and expose
+- **[PurlDB](https://github.com/nexB/purldb)** consists of tools to create and expose
   a database of purls (Package URLs) and also has package data for all of these
-  packages created from scans. This is maintained by @jyang
+  packages created from scans. This is maintained by @jyang.
 
 - **[FetchCode](https://github.com/nexB/fetchcode)** is a library
-  to reliably fetch any code via HTTP, FTP and version control systems such as git.
+  to reliably fetch any code via HTTP, FTP, and version control systems such as git.
 
 - **[Scancode Workbench](https://github.com/nexB/scancode-workbench)**: a desktop application
   based on typescript and react to visualize and review scan results from scancode scans. 
 
 - **[AboutCode Toolkit](https://github.com/nexB/aboutcode-toolkit)**: a set of command line tools to document
   the provenance of your code and generate attribution notices.  AboutCode Toolkit uses small yaml files to
-  document code provenance inside a codebase. The lead maintainer is @chinyeungli
+  document code provenance inside a codebase. The lead maintainer is @chinyeungli.
 
-- **[container-inspector](https://github.com/nexB/container-inspector)**: a tool to analyze the structure
+- **[Container-inspector](https://github.com/nexB/container-inspector)**: a tool to analyze the structure
   and provenance of software components in Docker images using static analysis. Maintained by @pombredanne
 
-- **[python-inspector](https://github.com/nexB/python-inspector)** and **[nuget inspector](https://github.com/nexB/nuget-inspector/)**
+- **[Python-inspector](https://github.com/nexB/python-inspector)** and **[Nuget inspector](https://github.com/nexB/nuget-inspector/)**
   inspects manifests and code to resolve dependencies (vulnerable and non-vulnerable) for
-  python and nuget packages respectively.
+  python and nuget packages, respectively.
 
-- **[license-expression](https://github.com/nexB/license-expression/)**: a library to parse, analyze, compare
+- **[License-expression](https://github.com/nexB/license-expression/)**: a library to parse, analyze, compare,
   and normalize SPDX and SPDX-like license expressions using a boolean logic expression engine.
   See https://spdx.org/spdx-specification-21-web-version#h.jxpfx0ykyb60 to understand what an expression is.
   See https://github.com/nexB/license-expression for the code. The underlying boolean engine is live at
-  https://github.com/bastikr/boolean.py . Both are co-maintained by @pombredanne
+  https://github.com/bastikr/boolean.py. Both are co-maintained by @pombredanne.
 
 - **ABCD aka AboutCode Data**: a simple set of conventions to define data structures that all the
   AboutCode tools can understand and use to exchange data. The details are at
   [AboutCode Data](https://aboutcode.readthedocs.io/en/latest/aboutcode-data/abcd.html).
-  ABOUT files and ScanCode Toolkit data are examples of this approach. Other projects such as
-  https://libraries.io and and [OSS Review Toolkit](https://github.com/heremaps/oss-review-toolkit)
-  are also using these conventions. 
+  ABOUT files and ScanCode Toolkit data are examples of this approach. Other projects, such as
+  https://libraries.io and [OSS Review Toolkit](https://github.com/heremaps/oss-review-toolkit), also use these conventions. 
 
 - **[TraceCode Toolkit](https://github.com/nexB/tracecode-toolkit)**: a set of tools to trace files from your
   deployment or distribution packages back to their origin in a development codebase or repository.
   The primary tool uses strace https://github.com/strace/strace/ to trace system calls on Linux and construct
   a build graph from syscalls to show which files are used to build a binary. We are contributors to strace.
   Maintained by @pombredanne
 
-We also co-started and worked closely with other FOSS orgs and projects:
+We also co-started and worked closely with other FOSS organizations and projects:
 
 - [Package URL](https://github.com/package-url): a widely used standard to reference software packages of all types with simple,
   readable and concise URLs.
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ We also co-started and worked closely with other FOSS orgs and projects:
 
 - [CycloneDX](https://cyclonedx.org) aka. OWASP CycloneDX is a full-stack
   Bill of Materials (BOM) standard that provides advanced supply chain
-  capabilities for cyber risk reduction
+  capabilities for cyber risk reduction.
 
 - [ClearlyDefined](https://ClearlyDefined.io): a project to review and help FOSS projects improve their licensing
-  and documentation clarity. This project is incubating with https://opensource.org
+  and documentation clarity. This project is incubating with https://opensource.org.