Open-source licensing can get ... complicated. These days, many programs are 20 percent original code on top of 80 percent previously open-sourced code. To help address the resulting licensing complications, configuration file is used to specify one or more application you're checking for licensing concerns.
The program discovers what dependencies exist for each of your applications. For each dependent library or routine found, Licensed finds its dependency source location in the local environment and extracts its basic metadata (e.g. name, version, homepage, and summary).
It then uses the Open source is 20: How it changed programming and business forever
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