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Overall information and licence lists
- Software licence selection and management in GÉANT
- Important licences for licence selection
- Open Source Software Licences in GN4-3 and GN5-1 GÉANT Project: Current State and Recommendations whitepaper with a brief explanation of licence types and tables with 20 frequent licences (in GÉANT) in Appendix A
- Detailed tabular data on licences - database of licences – a set of XLS sheets, with the first one providing an integral view of key licence characteristics
- Top open source licenses and legal risk for developers, top 20 categorised by risk, https://www.synopsys.com/blogs/software-security/top-open-source-licenses/
Mend – Open Source Licenses Licenses in 2022: Trends and and Predictions, https://www.mend.io/resources/blog/open-source-licenses-trends-and-predictions/
- Standardised SPDX licence codes and licence texts, https://spdx.org/licenses/
- University of Pittsburgh Library System – Copyright and Intellectual Property Toolkit, https://pitt.libguides.com/copyright
- Mend – Open Source Licenses Explained, https://www.mend.io/resources/blog/open-source-licenses-explained/
- Free Software Foundation's free software licences and Non-free Software Licenses, classified individual licences and their compatibility with GPL, https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html
- Open Source Initiative (OSI) approved licenses
- By category, https://opensource.org/licenses/category
- Alphabetical, https://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical
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Following is a graph of licences that are most frequently used in GÉANT projects that were scanned using the Mend tool. It is based on the two previous graphs.
Dual and multi-licensing
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Risk mitigation against potentially harmful legal threats or behaviours by free-software licences
Frequently used protective and permissive licenses | |||||||
AGPLv3 | GPLv3 | GPLv2.1 | LGPLv3 | LGPLv2.1 | MPL-2 | BSD | |
Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | |
Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | |
Proprietization | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial | Partial | Partial | No |
Granularity/reach | Project | Project | Project | Library | Library | File | N/A |
Trademark grant | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | No | No |
(Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-software_license)
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- The License Compliance Verifier (LCV), demonstrator based on a subset of the compatibility rules from the Open Source Automation Development Lab (OSADL) matrix, https://github.com/fasten-project/fasten/wiki/License-compliance
- SQAaaS (Software Quality Assurance as a Service), checks for the presence of a LICENSE file with an OSI-approved licence as a part of a more extensive quality analysis (however, only compliance with the OSI Open Source Definition is required), https://sqaaas.eosc-synergy.eu/
- License Maven Plugin
Licence selection tools and resources
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