{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/licensing/refs/heads/main/json-schema/licensing-oss-license-schema.json",
  "title": "OSSLicense",
  "description": "Represents an open-source software license entry as catalogued by SPDX, OSI, ChooseALicense, or detected by tools such as ScanCode, FOSSology, and ClearlyDefined.",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "spdx_id": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Canonical SPDX short identifier for the license.",
      "example": "Apache-2.0"
    },
    "name": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Full, human-readable name of the license.",
      "example": "Apache License 2.0"
    },
    "reference_url": {
      "type": "string",
      "format": "uri",
      "description": "Canonical reference URL for the license text on spdx.org.",
      "example": "https://spdx.org/licenses/Apache-2.0.html"
    },
    "osi_approved": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "Whether the license is approved by the Open Source Initiative.",
      "example": true
    },
    "fsf_libre": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "Whether the Free Software Foundation classifies the license as a free/libre license.",
      "example": true
    },
    "is_deprecated": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "Whether the SPDX License List has deprecated this identifier in favor of a successor.",
      "example": false
    },
    "category": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Family of license obligations.",
      "enum": ["permissive", "weak-copyleft", "strong-copyleft", "network-copyleft", "public-domain", "proprietary", "source-available", "other"],
      "example": "permissive"
    },
    "obligations": {
      "type": "array",
      "description": "Common compliance obligations imposed by the license.",
      "items": {
        "type": "string",
        "enum": ["include-copyright", "include-license", "state-changes", "disclose-source", "network-use-disclose", "same-license", "patent-grant", "trademark-restriction"]
      },
      "example": ["include-copyright", "include-license", "state-changes", "patent-grant"]
    },
    "license_text_url": {
      "type": "string",
      "format": "uri",
      "description": "URL to the canonical license text suitable for inclusion in NOTICE or LICENSE files.",
      "example": "https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt"
    },
    "detected_by": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Tool that produced this license detection result, if any.",
      "enum": ["spdx", "osi", "choosealicense", "github", "scancode", "fossology", "clearlydefined", "ort", "snyk", "synopsys", "sonatype", "jfrog", "veracode", "anchore", "other"],
      "example": "scancode"
    },
    "confidence": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Detection confidence between 0 and 1, when the record originates from a scanner.",
      "minimum": 0,
      "maximum": 1,
      "example": 0.97
    }
  },
  "required": ["spdx_id", "name", "category"]
}