Managing license compliance in free and open source software development

GR Gangadharan; Vincenzo D'Andrea; Stefano De Paoli; Michael Weiss

doi:10.1007/s10796-009-9180-1

Managing license compliance in free and open source software development

GR Gangadharan^*, Vincenzo D'Andrea, Stefano De Paoli, Michael Weiss

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	143-154
Number of pages	12
Journal	Information Systems Frontiers
Volume	14
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-009-9180-1
Publication status	Published - Apr 2012
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

License compliance
Free and open source software
Compliance management
Rights expression languages
Compatibility analysis

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