Managing license compliance in free and open source software development |
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Authors: | G R Gangadharan Vincenzo D’Andrea Stefano De Paoli Michael Weiss |
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Affiliation: | (1) Novay, Enschede, The Netherlands;(2) University of Trento, Trento, Italy;(3) National University of Ireland Maynooth, Maynooth Co. Kildare, Ireland;(4) Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada |
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Abstract: | License compliance in Free and Open Source Software development is a significant issue today and organizations using free
and open source software are predominately focusing on this issue. The non-compliance to licenses in free and open source
software development leads to the loss of reputation and the high costs of litigation for organizations. Towards an automated
compliance management, we use the Open Digital Rights Language to implement the clauses of open source software licenses in
a machine interpretable way and propose a novel algorithm that analyzes compatibility between free and open source software
licenses. Also, we describe a framework that inductively manages compliance of license clauses in a free and open source software
development. We simulate and evaluate the formalized license compliance management by analyzing a real-time open source software
project GRASS. |
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