ClearlyDefined: A Crowdsourced Database of Licensing Metadata
summary
A crowdsourced database that serves licensing metadata via a simple REST API and hourly change notifications powers SBOM and compliance workflows, harvesting code with a crawler/harvester that runs tools like ScanCode and reuse/licensing processors and writing raw results into a store for human curation. Adoption hits: GitHub imports ~17.5M then reports >40M license records, SAP cuts database operational cost by >90% and firms report 30–50% faster review turnaround, and the service is production-ready and in active use.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction and mission
- 2:54Using the ClearlyDefined API
- 6:31GitHub’s use case
- 14:43SAP’s adoption journey
- 21:32Community and governance
- 23:42Q&A session
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