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

How other projects work with licenses

 * Debian licensecheck tool
 * Openembedded License workflow

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
 * LICENSE files are missing upstream in many projects on github, it is easy to add them.