[License-discuss] Evolving the License Review process for OSI

Stefano Zacchiroli zack at opensource.org
Fri Jun 7 12:47:49 UTC 2019


On Mon, Jun 03, 2019 at 06:40:40PM -0400, Pamela Chestek wrote:
> Is there any way to find out if some of these licenses are even still in
> use (or ever were)?

If they are detected by the license detection tool we're using
(currently: FOSSology; more can be added) we can also query the Software
Heritage ( https://www.softwareheritage.org ) archive by license.

Cheers
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