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

Brendan Hickey brendan.m.hickey at gmail.com
Fri Jun 7 13:18:58 UTC 2019


On Fri, Jun 7, 2019, 08:48 Stefano Zacchiroli <zack at opensource.org> wrote:

> 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.
>

licensecheck (https://github.com/google/licensecheck) is another tool which
may be helpful.

Brendan


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