As a result of audits such as the LCA and also from numerous discussions with legal experts, it has become apparent that in many cases the best way to achieve company-wide compliance with Open Source licenses is to introduce a corresponding policy. Completing and adapting the OSADL Open Source Policy Template is a welcome and efficient first step in realizing this goal.

Create checklists of Open Source license obligations in a standardized way and have them acknowledged by an international working group of lawyers, legal specialists and interested laymen in an on-line collaborative project

Employees of OSADL member companies have the right to ask questions about the use and distribution of Open Source software. These questions are answered by internal or external experts and are often edited and formatted to create FAQ that others can benefit from and that are made available along with a keyword search here.

OSADL assists companies in selecting, installing, and deploying open source tools for automating compliance tasks, e.g., scanning tools such as FOSSology and Scancode. In addition, OSADL develops tools that facilitate the optimization of compliance processes, such as a program for creating dependency graphs (call graphs) and for source code provenance analysis.

Let commonly used Open Source projects undergo license clearance, store information about the clearing process and all required licensing material in a re-usable way, generate trust by a thorough revision process, make everything publicly available in a standard format, provide converter tools and encourage the community to use it and to grow the project.