Awesome Open Source Licensing
Contents
- Open Source Basics
- To bookmarks
- FAQs
- Case Study
- Papers & Talks
- Courses
- Software
- Non-profit foundations
- License compliance
- Patents vs OSS Licensing
- Popular questions in community
- Licensing role in Due diligence
- Blogs
- Just for fun
- Credits
- Contributions
- License
Open Source Basics
To bookmarks
FAQs
- Open Source Initiative FAQ
- GNU General Public License FAQ
- Apache License FAQ
- Eclipse Public License FAQ
- Mozilla Public License FAQ
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
Papers & Talks
- An analysis of open source software licensing questions in Stack Exchange sites — Maria Papoutsoglou, Georgia M. Kapitsaki, Daniel German, Lefteris Angelis, 2021
- Sorrel: an IDE Plugin for Managing Licenses and Detecting License Incompatibilities — Dmitry Pogrebnoy, Ivan Kuznetsov, Yaroslav Golubev, Vladislav Tankov, Timofey Bryksin, 2021
- A Study of Potential Code Borrowing and License Violations in Java Projects on GitHub, talk — Yaroslav Golubev, Maria Eliseeva, Nikita Povarov, Timofey Bryksin, 2020
- From One to Hundreds: Multi-Licensing in the JavaScript Ecosystem — João Pedro Moraes, Ivanilton Polato, Igor Wiese, Filipe Saraiva, Gustavo Pinto, 2020
- Continuous Open Source License Compliance — Simon Phipps, Stefano Zacchiroli, 2020
- Understanding the Usage, Impact, and Adoption of Non-OSI Approved Licenses — Rômulo Manciola Meloca , Gustavo Pinto, Leonardo Pontes Baiser , Marco Mattos , Ivanilton Polato , Igor Wiese, Daniel M. German, 2018
- Open Source Software Opportunities and Risks — John Sherlock, Manoj Muniswamaiah, Lauren Clarke, Shawn Cicoria, 2018
- A Dual Model of Open Source License Growth — Gottfried Hoffmann, Dirk Riehle, Carsten Kolassa, Wolfgang Mauerer, 2014
- Freedom From Restriction, Freedom Of A Restriction: A Comparison Of Some Open Source Software Licenses — Martin A. Coleman, 2014
Courses
- Open Source Software Licensing Basics for Corporate Users — Heather Meeker
- OSS Licenses and Legal Issues — The Linux Foundation
Software
Tools & libs
- ninka - a license identification tool for Source Code
- scancode-toolkit - ScanCode detects licenses, copyrights, package manifests & dependencies and more by scanning code
- go-license-detector - Reliable project licenses detector
- OSS Review Toolkit - A suite of tools to assist with reviewing Open Source Software dependencies
- 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.
- pip-licenses - Dump the software license list of Python packages installed with pip.
- 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.
- LicenseCheck - Output the licences used by dependencies and check if these are compatible with the project license.
- 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.
- action-pip-license-checker - GitHub Action for license compliance: Python, JavaScript, iOS, Android and more.
- python-third-party-license-file-generator - A tool that walks your Python project's requirements and gathers the third party licenses for you.
- NPM License Checker - Check NPM package licenses
- Apache2 License Checker - Automated license checker for validating project dependencies for compatible Apache2 licenses.
License management solutions
- [free] Plugin for checking license compatibility in IntelliJ IDEA
- [free] FOSSology is a open source license compliance software system and toolkit
- [free] Open Source Tools supported by SPDX
- [paid] CodeScoring
- [paid] WhiteSource
- [paid] Snyk
- [paid] Sonatype Nexus Lifecycle
- [paid] FOSSA
- [paid] Licensebat
- [paid] Black Duck
- [paid] nexB
- [paid] ShiftLeft
- [paid] Debricked
- [paid] Quodana
Non-profit foundations
- Apache Software Foundation (ASF)
- Open Source Initiative (OSI)
- Free Software Foundation (FSF)
- The Eclipse Foundation
- The Gnome Foundation
- The Mozilla Foundation
- The Python Foundation
- The Linux Foundation
- Creative Commons
- Fintech Open Source Foundation
- Blue Oak Council
- Software Freedom Conservancy
License compliance
- 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
Patents vs OSS Licensing
Popular questions in community
- 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
Licensing role in Due diligence
- Role of Software Composition Analysis in M&A Due Diligence
- License Compliance and Software Security for M&A Due Diligence
Blogs
Just for fun
Richard Stallman Free software Song
Credits
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