Paper Info
Title
Retrieving Open Source Software Licenses
Abstract
Open Source Software maintenance and reuse require identifying and comprehending the applied software, licenses. This paper first characterizes software maintenance, and open source software (OSS) reuse which are particularly relevant in this context. The information needs of maintainers and reusers can be supported by reverse engineering tools at different information retrieval levels. The paper presents an automated license retrieval approach called ASLA. User needs, system architecture, tool features, and tool evaluation are presented. The implemented tool features support identifying source file dependencies and licenses in source files, and adding new license templates for identifying licenses. The tool is evaluated against another tool for license information extraction. ASLA requires the source code as available input but is otherwise not limited to OSS. It supports the same programming languages as GCC. License identification coverage is good and the tool is extendable.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1007/0-387-34226-5_4
INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING
Keywords
Field
DocType
information extraction,information retrieval,software maintenance,programming language,system architecture,source code,reverse engineering,information need
Static program analysis,Software license,Computer science,Software system,Backporting,Software maintenance,Software quality,Software construction,Database,Software development
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
203
1571-5736
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.48
8
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Timo Tuunanen1322.41
Jussi Koskinen212213.44
Tommi Kärkkäinen319729.59