License Compliance has become big business. Many proprietary tools exist, but fortunately in recent years FLOSS tools to aid understanding the licenses of codebases have been created. This panel includes developers of many of these freely available tools.
In this video from FOSDEM 2019, we discuss:
- What these License Compliance tools do?
- If they can actually address compliance problems in the wild yet!
- The general challenges of developing freely available tools in a heavily proprietarized industry.
