Tag: License Compliance

Abstract: Software licenses play a critical role when developing applications containing open source dependencies. To avoid legal risks, a proper management of these dependencies is necessary and with an increasing number of third-party dependencies in commercial products, license compliance become...

Abstract: As the software industry grows fast, the competition to produce high-quality software as quickly as possible, made the reusability of Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) famous, but with features come challenges and risks. The main issue with FLOSS is license compliance among the ...

Abstract: Today software ecosystems heavily rely on the re-usage of and object level linking to existing code. Allowance for this is given by a wide variety of software licenses. Due to conflicting restrictions imposed by those licenses, some of them cannot be used together in the same project. This...