Tooling and resources overview

This is an attempt to gather information about useful Open Source Compliance tools and resources.

Identify License and Copyright

fossology - FOSSology is a open source license compliance software system and toolkit
lookup-license - Python tool to identify license from license text or license name. Basically wraps ScanCode and FOSS Licenses
ORT - A suite of tools to automate software compliance checks
ScanCode - ScanCode detects licenses, copyrights, dependencies by “scanning code”
Scarfer - Source Code scan report file reporter

FOSS Licenses - License meta data: data and python module/cli
LDBcollector - A small application which needs a better name and collects oss-license metadata and combines it
scancode-licensedb - A free and open database of all the licenses, in particular all the open source software licenses
SPDX License List - The SPDX License List includes a standardized short identifier, the full name, the license text, and a canonical permanent URL for each license and exception.

flict - free and open source software license compatibility tool
FOSS Licenses - License meta data: data and python module/cli
Licomp toolkit - Python module and program to check compatibility between two licenses with context
RecLicense - An open-source license compliance analysis and license recommendation tool.

OSADL’s license matrix, part of OSADL’s license checklist. The matrix contains data with compatibility status between two licenses.
Open Source Software Data Analytics Lab@PKU-SEI’s license matrix, part of RecLicense. The matrix contains data with compatibility status between two licenses.