[License-discuss] Database of all licenses?

Kevin P. Fleming kevin+osi at km6g.us
Wed Apr 7 10:13:29 UTC 2021


The Dejacode product (from NexB Inc.) has a large license database (at
least 1,300 of them), and while it is not open source I'm certain they
would be happy to share the database.

On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 11:04 PM James <purpleidea at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Does someone have a large database of software licenses and/or patent
> notices? I already have SPDX, but I'm interested in a larger
> compendium. I'd ideally like to consume these from an authoritative
> source in git, similar to spdx, but I will make my own repo and
> publish it if I can't find that. I don't care if the licenses are free
> or proprietary. The minimum fields would need to be the full license
> text in canonical form, and the license name. A common unique
> short-name would be great too, but isn't required.
>
> I'm doing some work on license analysis, and I'd prefer not having to
> curate my own list if possible. I'd also like to assign each of these
> a unique name similar to SPDX. I suppose getting the blackduck
> database would be an excellent option, but I imagine that data might
> be proprietary, and I'd like to consume and publish this freely in
> git.
>
> Thanks!
> James
>
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