schema-migration
Fail-closed governance enforcement
Review provenance, claim-level requirements, source audits, and publication boundaries are validated before content can become public.
Evidence governance
Research status
PickALicense keeps source provenance, review status, and publication decisions separate. Missing or expired required review blocks publication instead of being treated as a minor warning.
Qualified legal review is still a release gate
Engineering and source validation do not approve license-specific legal content. Public Advanced recommendations remain blocked until the required qualified and usability reviews are recorded.
Publication gate example
Internal validation includes a non-legal process claim with a pending review. The claim itself is not bundled into this public route; only its blocked release status is shown here.
- Record
- Internal validation only
- Required review
- Pending
- Decision
- block
Required review is incomplete, so public routes, results, metadata, downloads, and repository actions remain unavailable.
Source registry
14 stable source IDs currently resolve every source reference used by the Beginner workflow and comparison matrix. Registry status: source-indexed-awaiting-qualified-legal-review.
- Source
GNU Affero General Public License version 3
agpl3-text
- Source
Apache License, Version 2.0
apache-text
- Source
The 3-Clause BSD License
bsd3-osi
- Source
Eclipse Public License 2.0
epl2-osi
- Source
EUPL-1.2 SPDX record
eupl-spdx
- Source
GNU licenses frequently asked questions
gnu-gpl-faq
- Source
GNU General Public License version 3
gpl3-text
- Source
GNU Lesser General Public License version 3
lgpl3-text
- Source
MIT License SPDX record
mit-spdx
- Source
Mozilla Public License 2.0 FAQ
mpl-faq
- Source
Mozilla Public License 2.0
mpl-text
- Source
The Legal Side of Open Source
opensource-guide-legal
- Source
The Open Source Definition
osi-osd
- Source
SPDX License List
spdx-list