Software License Ontology

Dataset

DOI

Ontology defining 39 Open Source Software Licenses with their license type (Copyleft. Permissive or Public Domain), their conditions (hasCondition), limitations (hasLimitation), permissions (hasPermission) and recommended use (isRecommendedFor).

In addition, there are compatibility relations defined between license types (isBackwardCompatibleWith, isForwardCompatibleWith) and software licenses (isExplicitelyCompatibleWith, isNotCompatibleWith) to express exceptions of the type based compatibility.

Identifier
DOI	https://doi.org/10.18419/DARUS-4738
Metadata Access	https://darus.uni-stuttgart.de/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=doi:10.18419/DARUS-4738

Provenance
Creator	Yangulova, Evgenia; Hirsch, Markus; Holland, Saskia; Iglezakis, Dorothea
Publisher	DaRUS
Contributor	FoKUS
Publication Year	2025
Funding Reference	DFG 425911815
Rights	CC BY 4.0; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
OpenAccess	true
Contact	FoKUS (University of Stuttgart)

Representation
Resource Type	Dataset
Format	application/octet-stream
Size	117927
Version	1.0
Discipline	Computer Science; Computer Science, Electrical and System Engineering; Engineering Sciences; Jurisprudence; Law; Private Law; Social and Behavioural Sciences