Customer
Hey!
Can you please help with a few questions about licensing our project?
Developing an open source license compliance project:
Our Trials, Tribulations and Achievements
Customer
Hey!
Can you please help with a few questions about licensing our project?
Yeah sure! What's the matter?
Linagora
Customer
We did use tools that you suggested, but... It is still unclear whether there is a licensing problem.
Ok... Where's your struggling point?
Linagora
Customer
Well, our techs needs help from our lawyers and our lawyers don't have sufficient tech background to help out.
The report focuses on potential risks due to the use of open-source licenses, and is tech-lawyers or legal-techies oriented... Thus not understandable by human beings.
Customer
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The report focuses on potential risks due to the use of open-source licenses, and is tech-lawyers or legal-techies oriented... Thus not understandable by human beings.
Customer
Hey! Can you please help with a few questions about licensing our project?
Customer
Yeah sure! What's the matter?
Linagora
Customer
We did use tools that you suggested, but... It is still unclear whether there is a licensing problem.
Ok... Where's your struggling point?
Linagora
Design a new tool which
Offers solutions, not foisting the issue on legal or tech
Provides CI/CD integration, so not disrupting the developers workflow
Produces a report for humans, not lawyers
Reports only actual non-compliances, not risks
Remember we are dealing with legal stuff...
It must yield ZERO false negatives!
(paranoid) Product Owner
Remember we are dealing with legal stuff...
It must yield ZERO false negatives!
(paranoid) Product Owner
Idea: powered this with
Structure analysis
Hierarchy tree computation
Fetch dependancies
Customer
Hum... Sorry to interrupt but
Customer 2
And what about?...
Customer 3
Oh! That too please
Idea: powered this with
Structure analysis
Hierarchy tree computation
Fetch dependancies
Re-arrange input scope
New task under heavy development
Idea: powered this with
Structure analysis
Hierarchy tree computation
Fetch dependancies
Gather as much information as possible about licenses and copyrights in all sub-folders and file headers.
Idea: powered this with concurent run of several tools like
What about non standardized data ? We've already found out that regex are limited. You better consider the use of Machine Learning!
(paranoid) Product Owner
What about non standardized data ? We've already found out that regex are limited. You better consider the use of Machine Learning!
(paranoid) Product Owner
New task under heavy development
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Apache-2.0 (42%)
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MIT (17%)
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​GPL-3.0-only (41%)
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Apache-2.0 (78%)
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MIT (8%)
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​GPL-3.0-only (14%)
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Apache-2.0 (37%)
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MIT (24%)
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​GPL-3.0-only (39%)
All Rights Reserved.
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Copyright 2011-2015 Twitter, Inc. -
Copyright 2013-2016 Cray Inc. -
Copyright 2018 Chart.js Contributors -
Copyright (C) 1984, 1989-1990, 2000-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Find out incompabilities based on the project architecture only.
Compare the list of incompatibilities with copyrights and origin to validate compliance in case of discrepancies.Â
Task under heavy development
Customer
Does it manage export control?
Customer 2
Can it analyze Docker images?
Customer 3
We want to provides binary, is it supported?
TODOs:
Inputs handling
Adding a database
UI/UX enhancements
Addition of a usage form
Machine Learning:
- More data sets for training
- algorithm improvements
- use only this tools ?
Want to join ?
Contact us
Claire Bouttes
Main Developper
cbouttes@linagora.com
Ludovic Schurr
Head of Legal / Product Owner
lschurr@linagora.com
Raoul Delpech
Head of Run & Consulting Services
rdelpech@linagora.com
Pierre Marty
(Speaker) Project Manager
pmarty@linagora.com
Support:
Code:
LinCompliance
By Pierre Marty
