TY  - JOUR
T1  - A Study on the Identification of Open Source License Compatibility Violations
AU  - Lee, Dong-Gun 
AU  - Seo, Yeong-Seok 
JO  - KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
PY  - 2018
DA  - 2018/1/1
DO  - 10.3745/KTSDE.2018.7.12.451
KW  - Open Source Software
KW  - License
KW  - License Violation
KW  - Compatibility
KW  - Association Rule Analysis
AB  - Open source software is used in various ways when developing new softwares all around the world. It requires rights and responsibilities as a form of an open source software license. Because the license is a contract between original software developers of the open source software and users, we must follow it and extremely cautious to avoid copyright infringement. In particular, we must verify license compatibility when we develop new software using the existing open source softwares. However, license violation issues always occur and lead to lawsuits so that they are having an adverse effect on the open source software ecosystem. Thus, in this paper, we propose a method, OSLC-Vid, to identify license violations whether compatibility issues exist between open source softwares. The proposed method is verified by the experiments to detect actual license violation cases.