Semi-automated License analysis and compatibility reporter:
http://www.mibsoftware.com/librock/lidesc/index.htm What it does: Based on answers to an HTML questionnaire, some conflicts with the GPL, the FSF definition of Free software, the OSD, and closed-source licensing are reported. The report also includes lists of previously analyzed example licenses which have similar clauses. Intended purposes of making this work public: - A license selector. Developers can get a list of licenses with attributes of interest, and choose an existing one. - A way to quickly identify known licenses with certain types of clauses. - Issues awareness tool. Those unfamiliar with Free/Open software concepts can identify problem clauses in a license, before approval submission for example. - Starting point for further study, and better communication when discussing/researching licenses. Further details are at the URL above. I welcome criticism and comments. On a related note, is there a list anywhere of licenses which failed to meet the OSD? The FSF commentary on failed licenses is very interesting. Such a list would be very useful to this project (and I expect it would be useful to visitors to opensource.org.) Does anyone have records of board votes and the license texts which failed? I want to add more examples to the analyzer. -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3