Companies receive comprehensive support from OSADL for FOSS license compliance:

OSADL FOSS Legal Knowledge Database
"Develop once for the use of many" is the FOSS development principle. Following this spirit, OSADL members may submit questions from their everyday's routine when dealing with FOSS licensing. Once anonymized and answered by OSADL's General Counsel, they are added to OSADL's collection of legal FAQ and assements. Topics are among others: GPL, copyleft, derivation, copyright law, source code disclosure.

-> https://www.osadl.org/?id=3461

OSADL Open Source License Obligations Checklists
Obligations of more than 120 FOSS license texts have been translated into a common language and qualified by a lawyer: The OSADL checklists. They facilitate fulfilling license obligations and can be integrated into build pipelines to help automate the compliance process.

-> https://www.osadl.org/?id=2525

OSSelot - The Open Source Curation Database
Most FOSS licenses require to convey license texts and copyright notices when such software is distributed. Since many software packages are used unchanged, this material may be extracted only once and provided for the use of many. The OSSelot project has done exactly this for more than 300 packages in more than 500 versions. The data are provided in various formats so they can generally be used for license compliance.

-> https://www.osselot.org

OSADL Container Base Image
The use of containers often leads to considerable licensing efforts. This is simplified by the OSADL container base images that can be copied and distributed immediately as they contain the required licensing material ready for use. The disclosure obligations, if any, are fulfilled by providing either source code or written offer.

-> https://www.osadl.org/base-image

OSADL License Compliance Audit (LCA)
Want to show that the Linux kernel and system libraries in your embedded systems are licensed compliantly? If so let OSADL do a License Compliance Audit (LCA). If successful, a certificate is issued and the audited product can be marked with the LCA hallmark.

-> https://osadl.org/LCA

FOSS tooling support
OSADL supports companies when selecting and installing licensing tools such as FOSSology. In addition, OSADL maintains and provides own licensing tools to automate and optimize compliance processes, such as a program to create dependency graphs (Callgraph).

-> https://www.osadl.org/?id=3747

OSADL contacts: Jan Altenberg, Carsten Emde, Caren Kresse, Astrid Spura