Project:Licenses

The Gentoo Licenses Project tries to make heads & tails of license terms, so that we can detect conflicts between licenses in packages, and know when it is safe to redistribute distfiles, or include binaries in stages and media.

Resources

 * License groups
 * /Licensing of Gentoo projects/

Gentoo

 * GLEP 23
 * lists installed packages with non-accepted licenses

License lists and definitions

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

Other projects

 * LICENSE files are missing upstream in many projects on github, it is easy to add them.
 * identifies licenses in source code
 * Debian licensecheck tool
 * Openembedded License workflow