License Pre-Validation Service (LPVS)

OpenSource code refers to software available for use, study, change, and distribution by anyone and for any purpose provided that the corresponding license conditions are met. License violation may end up with litigations, damage compensation, obligation to disclose intellectual property as well as reputational losses.

In a project with many external dependencies it might be really difficult to trace license obligations. Also if many collaborators are involved, a risk of non-intentional license violation (such as via Copy-Paste) grows. There are even more tricky nuances such as double-licensed dependencies or license change (because of owner, purpose, legislation change) that may make a previously safe dependency to become an unsafe one over time.

License Pre-Validation Service (LPVS) helps to mitigate license-related risks for OpenSource code. The tool analyzes the project, identifies its components and their respective licenses at every commit. Then it returns the list of potential issue cases as GitHub comments. LPVS provides the comprehensive description of possible license violations, including risky code location and license issue overview.