A comprehensive legal guidance skill for selecting, comparing, and generating canonical open-source licenses within your development environment.
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1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install open-source-license
2. Manual Installation
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3. Prompt Installation
Copy this prompt to OpenClaw to install it automatically.
Help me install open-source-license using Clawhub. If Clawhub is not installed, install it first (npm i -g clawhub).
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What is Open Source License Skill?
This skill provides developers and legal teams with an automated framework for managing open-source licensing complexities. Built for the modern ecosystem, it offers precise guidance on license selection, compliance reviews, and the generation of standardized LICENSE or NOTICE files. By utilizing Openclaw Skills for license management, developers can ensure their projects adhere to global legal standards while navigating the nuances of permissive, copyleft, and specialized licenses like Mulan PSL v2. It acts as a specialized assistant that reduces the risk of legal friction by providing canonical texts and compatibility matrices directly within your coding agent workflow.
Open Source License Skill Use Cases
- Selecting the optimal license for a new repository based on adoption goals or patent needs.
- Reviewing an existing codebase for license compatibility and compliance conflicts.
- Generating canonical license headers and NOTICE files for project documentation.
- Comparing the legal trade-offs between popular licenses like MIT, Apache-2.0, and GPL-3.0.
- Applying Mulan PSL v2 for projects targeting specific international or Chinese open-source ecosystems.
How Open Source License Skill Works
- The skill analyzes user requirements through a structured decision tree to determine primary goals such as widespread adoption versus copyleft protection.
- It cross-references internal databases of permissive, copyleft, and specialty licenses to provide a technical comparison matrix.
- For compliance reviews, it identifies all licenses within the project and flags compatibility issues based on standardized rules.
- It retrieves canonical license text from verified templates to ensure zero modification of legal terms during generation.
- Finally, it outputs a ready-to-use license file or source header using user-provided placeholders like year and copyright holder.
Open Source License Skill Setup
To integrate this skill into your workflow, ensure your environment has access to the legal-skills repository references. You can initialize the license assistant within your agent interface by calling the Openclaw Skills framework and pointing it to the reference directory. For command-line interactions, use:
# Example setup command for the skill environment
openclaw install open-source-license
Open Source License Skill Data Schema & Taxonomy
| Category | Reference Files | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Selection | selection/decision-tree.md |
Logic for choosing the right license based on project goals. |
| Licenses | licenses/permissive.md, copyleft.md |
Standardized database of legal texts for MIT, GPL, etc. |
| Compliance | compliance/compatibility.md |
Conflict resolution and compatibility rules for mixed-license projects. |
| Templates | templates/license-files.md |
Canonical placeholders for LICENSE and NOTICE files. |
| Specialized | mulan-psl-v2.md |
Specific guidance and bilingual texts for Mulan PSL v2 compliance. |
Open Source License Skill Advanced Features
- Automated license compatibility checking for complex multi-dependency projects.
- Dynamic generation of project-wide NOTICE files based on third-party attribution aggregation.
- Multi-language support with a specific focus on Mulan PSL v2 bilingual requirements and legal prevailing rules.
- Integration with project audit workflows to flag license violations during development using Openclaw Skills logic.
- Support for complex dual-licensing strategy analysis and actionable remediation steps for compliance gaps.
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