awesome-open-source-licensing
Cool links, tools & papers related to Open Source Licensing
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Tools & libs
- License Finder - LicenseFinder works with your package managers to find dependencies, detect the licenses of the packages in them, compare those licenses against a user-defined list of permitted licenses, and give you an actionable exception report.
- NPM License Checker - Check NPM package licenses
- OSS Review Toolkit - A suite of tools to assist with reviewing Open Source Software dependencies
- go-license-detector - Reliable project licenses detector
- pip-licenses - Dump the software license list of Python packages installed with pip.
- action-pip-license-checker - GitHub Action for license compliance: Python, JavaScript, iOS, Android and more.
- pip-license-checker - License compliance tool. Detect license names and types for Python PyPI packages. Identify license types for given license names obtained by third-party tools. Great coverage of free/libre and open source licenses of all types: public domain, permissive, copyleft.
- Apache2 License Checker - Automated license checker for validating project dependencies for compatible Apache2 licenses.
- scancode-toolkit - ScanCode detects licenses, copyrights, package manifests & dependencies and more by scanning code
- ninka - a license identification tool for Source Code
- liccheck - Check python packages from requirement.txt and report issues
- pylic - Python license checker, reads pylic configuration in pyproject.toml and checks licenses of installed packages recursively.
- LicenseCheck - Output the licences used by dependencies and check if these are compatible with the project license.
- python-third-party-license-file-generator - A tool that walks your Python project's requirements and gathers the third party licenses for you.
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Open Source Basics
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Case Study
- Creative Commons legal database
- Legal issues for the use of Free and Open Source Software in Government, 2005
- Legal Issues Relating to Free and Open Source Software, 2003
- A Primer on Open Source Licensing Legal Issues: Copyright, Copyleft and Copyfuture, 2001
- Legal issues for the use of Free and Open Source Software in Government, 2005
- Creative Commons legal database
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Papers & Talks
- An analysis of open source software licensing questions in Stack Exchange sites
- Sorrel: an IDE Plugin for Managing Licenses and Detecting License Incompatibilities
- A Study of Potential Code Borrowing and License Violations in Java Projects on GitHub - qIAtY) — Yaroslav Golubev, Maria Eliseeva, Nikita Povarov, Timofey Bryksin, 2020
- From One to Hundreds: Multi-Licensing in the JavaScript Ecosystem
- Continuous Open Source License Compliance
- Understanding the Usage, Impact, and Adoption of Non-OSI Approved Licenses
- Open Source Software Opportunities and Risks
- A Dual Model of Open Source License Growth
- Freedom From Restriction, Freedom Of A Restriction: A Comparison Of Some Open Source Software Licenses
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Courses
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License compliance
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License management solutions
- GNU license compliance with Others
- GNU about License Compatibility and Relicensing
- ASF about license compliance
- Creative Commons about license compliance
- OSI: Resources for Open Source Compliance
- Linux Foundation: Open Source Compliance in the Enterprise
- Open Source License Compliance Handbook
- Google about license compliance
- Google about license compliance
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Patents vs OSS Licensing
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Popular questions in community
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License management solutions
- Top 10 GPL License Questions Answered
- Top 10 Apache License Questions Answered
- Open source code with no license... can I fork it?
- Static linking vs dynamic linking
- Is an import in python considered to be dynamic linking?
- Using Python module on LGPL license in commercial product
- Bruce Perens: Combining GPL and Proprietary Software
- Top 10 GPL License Questions Answered
- Top 10 Apache License Questions Answered
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Licensing role in Due diligence
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License management solutions
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Blogs
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Just for fun
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Credits
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