Open Source License Inconsistencies on GitHub


Open Source License Inconsistencies on GitHub is a scholarly work, published in 2022 in ''ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology''. The main subjects of the publication include license, GitHub, computer security, source code, crowdsourcing, software, open source, open-source software, computer science, software engineering, World Wide Web, code, MIT License, and database. The article investigates the extent of inconsistencies between licenses declared by an open source project at the top level of the repository and the licenses found in the code.
DOI 10.1145/3571852