An insight into license tools for open source software systems
Date
2015Source
Journal of Systems and SoftwareVolume
102Pages
72-87Google Scholar check
Keyword(s):
Metadata
Show full item recordAbstract
Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) has gained a lot of attention lately allowing organizations to incorporate third party source code into their implementations. When open source software libraries are used, software resources may be linked directly or indirectly with multiple open source licenses giving rise to potential license incompatibilities. Adequate support in license use is vital in order to avoid such violations and address how diverse licenses should be handled. In the current work we investigate software licensing giving a critical and comparative overview of existing assistive approaches and tools. These approaches are centered on three main categories: license information identification from source code and binaries, software metadata stored in code repositories, and license modeling and associated reasoning actions. We also give a formalization of the license compatibility problem and demonstrate the role of existing approaches in license use decisions. © 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Collections
Cite as
Related items
Showing items related by title, author, creator and subject.
-
Article
Automating the license compatibility process in open source software with SPDX
Kapitsaki, Georgia M.; Kramer, F.; Tselikas, N. D. (2017)Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) promotes software reuse and distribution at different levels for both creator and users, but at the same time imposes some challenges in terms of FOSS licenses that can be selected and ...
-
Conference Object
Validate your SPDX files for open source license violations
Paschalides, D.; Kapitsaki, Georgia M. (Association for Computing Machinery, 2016)Licensing decisions for new Open Source Software are not al-ways straightforward. However, the license that accompanies the software is important as it largely affects its subsequent distribution and reuse. License information ...
-
Article
Open source license violation check for SPDX files
Kapitsaki, Georgia M.; Kramer, F. (2014)The Open Source Software development model has gained a lot of momentum in the latest years providing organizations and software engineers with a variety of software, components and libraries that can be exploited in the ...