Automated Analysis of Heterogeneous Software Licenses (slides:) Hazeline Asuncion Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Informatics Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences University of California, Irvine

Abstract

Independent software vendors are increasingly using third party components with different licenses to develop software. Although this strategy can lower development costs, incompatible licenses may result in substantially higher liabilities. In this talk, we present a systematic approach to resolve license conflicts within a system. We will demonstrate a prototype license analysis tool built into ArchStudio 4.

 

Bio

Hazeline Asuncion is a Ph.D. candidate under Professor Richard N. Taylor in the Institute for Software Research at the University of California, Irvine. Her research emphasis is software traceability and how it can support various software development tasks by increasing the accessibility of relevant information. She has also worked in the software industry in a variety of roles. One of her industry projects involved designing and implementing an in-house software traceability system at Wonderware Corporation, a business unit of Invensys and a leading supplier of industrial automation and information software. More recently, she investigated the tracing of software license conflicts in heterogeneously composed software systems, in collaboration with Thomas Alspaugh and Walt Scacchi.