Hi Luis! On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 1:14 AM Luis Villa <l...@lu.is> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 3:50 PM Pamela Chestek <pam...@chesteklegal.com> wrote: >> Is there any way to find out if some of these licenses are even still in use >> (or ever were)? >> http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org > > One could probably do a pretty decent survey with some combination of > libraries.io, > clearlydefined.io, and Debian/Fedora (for C/C++, which aren't covered well by > libraries.io or AFAIK clearlydefined.io). Daniel German or Philippe Ombredanne > would probably be able to suggest appropriate queries/databases. > > There's a bunch of problems with using this data for relative popularity > (some discussion of this waaaayyyy back in the archives, between Daniel > and I) but for basic "is it used by any modern-ish software at all" those > could > give you a pretty good start.
Thank you for the plug for https://clearlydefined.io ! For those who did not hear about this, ClearlyDefined is a project that incubates at the OSI. So that would be quite a natural source of licensing data. There are about 20 million versions of open source packages that have been scanned with scancode-toolkit there and this contains all OSI-approved licenses and many more. This is of course a biased subset and yes, it may not cover everything out there yet. But this is likely the biggest and most comprehensive license-related data set available today. -- Cordially Philippe Ombredanne _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@lists.opensource.org http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org
