Go repositories licenses on GitHub

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Go repositories licenses on GitHub

This is a short survey of Go repositories license usage on GitHub.

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Queries on Google BigQuery:

• OSS Go Repositories x Licenses on GitHub
• OSS Repositories x Licenses on GitHub

See also: February, 2019 data

github-go-repos-licenses.sql

-- https://bigquery.cloud.google.com/savedquery/1079358982054:8d259a37f0584737bc959c0153e3b262
SELECT
  COUNT(rlic.license) AS total,
  rlic.license
FROM
  [bigquery-public-data:github_repos.licenses] AS rlic
LEFT OUTER JOIN
  [bigquery-public-data:github_repos.languages] AS rlang
ON
  rlic.repo_name = rlang.repo_name
WHERE
  language.name == "Go"
GROUP BY
  rlic.license
ORDER BY
  total DESC

github-repos-licenses.sql

-- https://bigquery.cloud.google.com/savedquery/1079358982054:13c99f9b04d54414a2ac978491133f9a
SELECT
  COUNT(rlic.license) AS total,
  rlic.license
FROM
  [bigquery-public-data:github_repos.licenses] AS rlic
GROUP BY
  rlic.license
ORDER BY
  total DESC

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One interesting study to do would be analyzing how license affects library usage.

This could be done by visiting all Go repos on GitHub and listing their dependencies licenses (usually Go projects have a vendor directory inside with all used dependencies internally, so this should be an easy task to automate in an efficient way).

Licenses files (license*/i/gm) could be downloaded an identified and a list created with vendor address + license to correctly categorize them.

It is highly expected that the most used packages use more permissive licenses.