2022-06-09 –, OW2con main virtual room
Free and open source license detection in source and binary code is still evolving at fast pace.
License detection is essential to get licensing right in an automated way as we are consuming more and more FOSS code packages to build rich systems and applications.
This session will present the latest techniques.
What is the state of the art for license detection?
What are the latest and upcoming techniques and approaches?
Can machine learning help improve license detection accuracy and quality?
What are the guarantees these techniques provide?
Which tool use which technique and with what results?
Join me for a review of the latest advances in this narrow but important domain. I will illustrate how some of these techniques are deployed in ScanCode Toolkit . ScanCode is a leading tool in this domain and used as one of the components of OW2 technical services and a tool supporting the OW2 Good Governance initiative.
Philippe is the lead maintainer of ScanCode the industry leading FOSS software composition analysis and license scanning tool, creator of Package URL, co-founder of SPDX and ClearlyDefined. He is a long time FOSS contributor and mentor and co-founder and CTO of nexB Inc., makers of DejaCode.