LicenseRec: Knowledge based Open Source License Recommendation for OSS Projects
Open Source license is a prerequisite for open source software, which regulates the use, modification, redistribution, and attribution of the software. Open source license is crucial to the community development and commercial interests of an OSS project, yet choosing a proper license from hundreds of licenses remains challenging. Tools assisting developers to understand the terms and pick the right license have been emerging, while inferring license compatibility on the dependency tree and satisfying complex needs of developers are beyond the capability of most of them. Thus we propose LicenseRec, an open source license recommendation tool that helps to bridge the gap. LicenseRec performs fine-grained license compatibility checks on OSS projects’ code and dependencies, and assists developers to choose the optimal license through an interactive wizard with guidelines of three aspects: personal open source style, business pattern, and community development. The usefulness of LicenseRec is confirmed by the consistent positive feedback from 10 software developers with academic and industrial backgrounds. Our tool is accessible at https://licenserec.com. And a video showcasing the tool is available at https://video.licenserec.com.
Fri 19 MayDisplayed time zone: Hobart change
15:45 - 17:15 | Software ecosystemsSEET - Software Engineering Education and Training / Technical Track / DEMO - Demonstrations / Journal-First Papers / SEIP - Software Engineering in Practice / SEIS - Software Engineering in Society at Meeting Room 110 Chair(s): Sebastian Baltes SAP SE & University of Adelaide | ||
15:45 7mTalk | Upstream Bug Management in Linux Distributions - An Empirical Study of Debian and Fedora Practices Journal-First Papers Jiahuei Lin Queen’s University Software Analysis and Intelligence Lab (SAIL), Canada, Haoxiang Zhang Centre for Software Excellence at Huawei Canada, Bram Adams Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Ahmed E. Hassan Queen’s University | ||
15:52 7mVision and Emerging Results | Treat societally impactful scientific insights as open-source software artifacts SEIS - Software Engineering in Society Cynthia C. S. Liem Delft University of Technology, Andrew M. Demetriou Delft University of Technology Pre-print | ||
16:00 15mTalk | Rules of Engagement: Why and How Companies Participate in OSS Technical Track Mariam Guizani Oregon State University, Aileen Abril Castro-Guzman Oregon State University, Anita Sarma Oregon State University, Igor Steinmacher Northern Arizona University Pre-print | ||
16:15 15mPaper | An Empirical Study on Software Bill of Materials: Where We Stand and the Road Ahead Technical Track Boming Xia CSIRO's Data61 & University of New South Wales, Tingting Bi Data61, CSIRO, Zhenchang Xing , Qinghua Lu CSIRO’s Data61, Liming Zhu CSIRO’s Data61 Pre-print | ||
16:30 15mTalk | Open Source Software Onboarding as a University Course: An Experience Report SEET - Software Engineering Education and Training Hao He Peking University, Minghui Zhou Peking University, Qingye Wang Peking University, China, Jingyue Li Norwegian University of Science and Technology Pre-print | ||
16:45 15mTalk | An Empirical Study of License Conflict in Free and Open Source Software SEIP - Software Engineering in Practice Xing Cui Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jingzheng Wu Institute of Software, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yanjun Wu Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xu Wang Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tianyue Luo , Sheng Qu Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiang Ling Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mutian Yang | ||
17:00 7mTalk | LicenseRec: Knowledge based Open Source License Recommendation for OSS Projects DEMO - Demonstrations Weiwei Xu Peking University, Xin Wu Peking University, Runzhi He Peking University, Minghui Zhou Peking University Pre-print | ||
17:07 7mTalk | Will you come back to contribute? Investigating the inactivity of OSS core developers in GitHub Journal-First Papers Fabio Calefato University of Bari, Marco Gerosa Northern Arizona University, Giuseppe Iaffaldano University of Bari, Filippo Lanubile University of Bari, Igor Steinmacher Northern Arizona University Link to publication DOI Pre-print | ||