New API helps open-source developers 'become license-aware'

The Open Source Initiative (OSI), the steward of the Open Source Definition (OSD), announced today it has created a machine readable publication of OSI approved licenses. According to the organization, the API will allow third parties to "become license-aware", giving businesses everywhere the means to determine if a license is open source or not. The Open Source Initiative considers this the next "logical step" and quite important, knowing all the copyright and license legal battles going on nowadays, and how expensive they can be. Open Source Lead at GitHub, Brandon Keepers offered, "A canonical, machine-readable source of license metadata is… [Continue Reading]