Organizations are successfully generating SBOMs for security, regulatory compliance, and business reasons, but struggle with their distribution.
FOSSA's new license concluded feature simplifies the process of analyzing multiple declared and discovered licenses associated with a single dependency.
Learn about the two primary techniques OSS license scanners use to detect open source licenses.
Learn about five lawsuits that have helped shape global enforcement of open source software licenses.
Explore the Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL), often used in .NET projects, known for its unique place in the open source licensing landscape.
An overview of the SIL Open Font License (OFL), its versions, and provisions for font software use, modification, and redistribution.
The CDDL — short for Common Development and Distribution License — is a weak copyleft open source software license initially published by Sun Microsystems.
An overview of the Eclipse Public License, its key provisions, and its compatibility with other licenses.
Explore the intricacies of the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL), its history, requirements, and its impact on the open-source software community.
An exploration of permissive open source licenses, their history, and their role in the software community.
An exploration of copyleft licenses, their history, differences from permissive licenses, and their role in the open source community.
Explore the history, requirements, and key differences of the ISC License in open source software.
Explore the differences between GPL v2 and GPL v3, understand the key features of GPL v3, and discover why it's a popular choice among developers and companies. Learn about its use cases, compatibility with Apache 2.0, and the future of GPL v3 in OSS projects.
Exploring the MIT License, a popular open source software license, its permissions, restrictions, and comparisons to other licenses.
Explore some of the most unconventional open source licenses, from Beerware to WTFPL.
A comprehensive guide to understanding open source licenses, including permissive and copyleft licenses, and how to apply them.
Exploring the best open source licenses for commercialization, including the balance between permissive and restrictive licenses.
Announcing new license data quality updates with over 300 new licenses in FOSSA.
