Project:Licenses

This is a small team in Gentoo that try to make heads & tails of license terms, so that we can detect conflicts between licenses in packages, and know when it’s safe to redistribute distfiles, or include binaries in stages and media.

Resources

 * License Groups

Useful links

 * GLEP 23
 * FSF licenses
 * OSI licenses
 * SPDX open source license registry
 * GNU free software &amp; freedoms definition
 * Open Source Definition
 * Open Source licenses summarized &amp; explained in plain English
 * Freedoc licenses