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A SPDX case study

A SPDX case study

Posted Sep 30, 2013 16:05 UTC (Mon) by dps (subscriber, #5725)
In reply to: A SPDX case study by HIGHGuY
Parent article: A SPDX case study

Working for a company that distributes boxes which aggregate OSS and definitely not OSS software the ability to track what licences apply to which bit of which package would be worth a lot.

Sometime we either don't have the source code or can't get it under a licence that would allow us to redistribute the source code. Some of the other code is hazardous to mental health or part of our secret sauce (and sometimes both).


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