Tools for software composition analysis (Philippe Ombredanne, IEEE Computer)

I’m happy to report that the tenth article in the open source column of IEEE Computer has been published.

Abstract: Modern software is assembled from thousands of open source components, each with its own provenance and license, meaning that automation is the only practical way to comply with license conditions. We review the domain of software license compliance tools.

As always, the article is freely available (local copy).

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