@article{ART003245104},
author={Dong-Wan Kim and Kyung-Yeob Park and YongJoon Joe and Shin DongMyung},
title={A Study on a License Compatibility Determination Model Using LLM-Based Clause Understanding and Attribute Extraction},
journal={Journal of Software Assessment and Valuation},
issn={2092-8114},
year={2025},
volume={21},
number={3},
pages={31-46}
TY - JOUR
AU - Dong-Wan Kim
AU - Kyung-Yeob Park
AU - YongJoon Joe
AU - Shin DongMyung
TI - A Study on a License Compatibility Determination Model Using LLM-Based Clause Understanding and Attribute Extraction
JO - Journal of Software Assessment and Valuation
PY - 2025
VL - 21
IS - 3
PB - Korea Software Assessment and Valuation Society
SP - 31
EP - 46
SN - 2092-8114
AB - As OSS adoption grows, license conflicts emerge as critical legal and technical challenges. Existing compliance tools mainly focus on license identification and still rely on manual expert review for compatibility decisions. In practice, compatibility depends not only on license clauses but also on operational context, which makes automation difficult. We propose a structured approach in which an LLM internalizes licensing rules without an external rule engine, predicts legal/technical/contextual attributes as ternary vectors (+1, 0, −1), and directly decides compatibility given the context. The input includes full license texts and integration/distribution details, and the model outputs sentence-level rationales to ensure explainability. These results indicate that combining legal reasoning and contextual awareness in LLMs can enable compatibility judgments without explicit rule engines, providing a foundation for automated OSS license compliance.
KW - OSS;LLM;License Conflict Analysis;Compliance Automatio;Multi-Task Learning
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Dong-Wan Kim, Kyung-Yeob Park, YongJoon Joe and Shin DongMyung. (2025). A Study on a License Compatibility Determination Model Using LLM-Based Clause Understanding and Attribute Extraction. Journal of Software Assessment and Valuation, 21(3), 31-46.
Dong-Wan Kim, Kyung-Yeob Park, YongJoon Joe and Shin DongMyung. 2025, "A Study on a License Compatibility Determination Model Using LLM-Based Clause Understanding and Attribute Extraction", Journal of Software Assessment and Valuation, vol.21, no.3 pp.31-46.
Dong-Wan Kim, Kyung-Yeob Park, YongJoon Joe, Shin DongMyung "A Study on a License Compatibility Determination Model Using LLM-Based Clause Understanding and Attribute Extraction" Journal of Software Assessment and Valuation 21.3 pp.31-46 (2025) : 31.
Dong-Wan Kim, Kyung-Yeob Park, YongJoon Joe, Shin DongMyung. A Study on a License Compatibility Determination Model Using LLM-Based Clause Understanding and Attribute Extraction. 2025; 21(3), 31-46.
Dong-Wan Kim, Kyung-Yeob Park, YongJoon Joe and Shin DongMyung. "A Study on a License Compatibility Determination Model Using LLM-Based Clause Understanding and Attribute Extraction" Journal of Software Assessment and Valuation 21, no.3 (2025) : 31-46.
Dong-Wan Kim; Kyung-Yeob Park; YongJoon Joe; Shin DongMyung. A Study on a License Compatibility Determination Model Using LLM-Based Clause Understanding and Attribute Extraction. Journal of Software Assessment and Valuation, 21(3), 31-46.
Dong-Wan Kim; Kyung-Yeob Park; YongJoon Joe; Shin DongMyung. A Study on a License Compatibility Determination Model Using LLM-Based Clause Understanding and Attribute Extraction. Journal of Software Assessment and Valuation. 2025; 21(3) 31-46.
Dong-Wan Kim, Kyung-Yeob Park, YongJoon Joe, Shin DongMyung. A Study on a License Compatibility Determination Model Using LLM-Based Clause Understanding and Attribute Extraction. 2025; 21(3), 31-46.
Dong-Wan Kim, Kyung-Yeob Park, YongJoon Joe and Shin DongMyung. "A Study on a License Compatibility Determination Model Using LLM-Based Clause Understanding and Attribute Extraction" Journal of Software Assessment and Valuation 21, no.3 (2025) : 31-46.
