[ale] Open-source software license manager

[Keith Hopkins ALE]

George Carless wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 10:24:40AM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
>> On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 09:16 -0400, George Carless wrote:
>>> (All of this talk of license management is oddly incongruous on ALE, btw...)
>> Really?   (care to expand)
> 
> Well, license management typically implies restrictions on use which are 
> antithetical to the nature of free software, right?  I can't imagine 
> needing to "manage" GPL-licensed software in this respect, for example.

Interesting you say that George.  This past week at Linux World Korea, I ran into a company, Black Duck Software, that does just that...helps you manage your GPL licensed software.  More specifically, they help you audit your code, so you don't end up mixing your GPL code with non-free and/or otherwise proprietary code (or vise versa).  It helps keep GPL code unencumbered.  Oddly enough, their software isn't open-source (yet).

--Keith