Empirical Software Engineering // 2026

Towards a Comprehensive Framework for Verifying Open-Source Software License Compatibility

Ziang Liu // Xin Liu // Yingli Zhang // Song Li // Weina Niu // Qingguo Zhou // Rui Zhou // Xiaokang Zhou

This journal work advances a more comprehensive framework for verifying open-source software license compatibility, aiming to support rigorous reasoning across languages, scenarios, and real engineering contexts.

Paper

Overview

This journal paper develops a broader verification framework for open-source software license compatibility. It extends the compliance-analysis line of work beyond a single tool into a more systematic methodology.

Position in the research agenda

Together with LiScopeLens and related industrial collaboration, this work represents the framework-oriented side of Ziang Liu’s research: moving from concrete detection techniques toward generalizable verification methods.

Citation

@article{liu2026licenseFramework,
  author = {Liu, Ziang and Liu, Xin and Zhang, Yingli and Li, Song and Niu, Weina and Zhou, Qingguo and Zhou, Rui and Zhou, Xiaokang},
  title = {Towards a comprehensive framework for verifying open-source software license compatibility},
  journaltitle = {Empirical Software Engineering},
  year = {2026},
  volume = {31},
  number = {1},
  eid = {15},
  doi = {10.1007/s10664-025-10751-w}
}

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