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---
slug: clearlydefined-three-year-roadmap
title: A three-year roadmap for ClearlyDefined
authors: [pombredanne]
tags: [license compliance, license detection]
hide_table_of_contents: false
---

ClearlyDefined has published a three-year roadmap covering sustainability,
technical investment, and adoption. AboutCode developed the roadmap together
with the ClearlyDefined community following the OSI and AboutCode
[Memorandum of Understanding](/blog/osi-aboutcode-clearlydefined-mou/)
signed in February.

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The roadmap is organized around three themes:

- **Sustainability**: stable funding and governance so the service and its
curated data remain available without interruption.
- **Technical foundations**: modernizing the harvest/import, curation UX, and
pipelines, and aligning ClearlyDefined data with PURL, ScanCode, and the
rest of the AboutCode project for efficiency gains.
- **Adoption and reach**: lowering the barrier to entry for new contributors,
growing the curator base, and expanding integrations with downstream adopters.

The full plan, including milestones, is in the
[ClearlyDefined roadmap](https://docs.clearlydefined.io/docs/resources/roadmap)
and is summarized in the
[OSI announcement](https://opensource.org/blog/clearlydefined-a-three-year-roadmap-for-sustainability-and-growth).
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slug: osi-aboutcode-clearlydefined-mou
title: OSI and AboutCode partner to sustain ClearlyDefined
authors: [pombredanne]
tags: [license compliance, license detection]
hide_table_of_contents: false
---

The Open Source Initiative (OSI) and AboutCode have signed a Memorandum of
Understanding to put ClearlyDefined on a sustainable path. ClearlyDefined
is a community-run database project of license, copyright, and package metadata
for open source components, and it has been a widely cited reference for
software composition analysis since 2017. It makes heavy usage of ScanCode.

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Under the MoU, OSI continues as the project's organizational steward while
AboutCode takes on responsibility for the technical foundations: the data
pipeline, the curation workflow, and integration with the broader AboutCode
toolchain (ScanCode, PurlDB, VulnerableCode). The goal is to keep
ClearlyDefined data current, improve its accuracy, and grow contributor
participation.

For ClearlyDefined users there is no changes, just continuity: the data
and APIs remain available and open, and the curation process stays open.
For the AboutCode community it means a new project to maintain and support
and a clearer path for license data to flow between ClearlyDefined and
the rest of AboutCode.

Background on the agreement is in the
[OSI announcement](https://opensource.org/blog/ensuring-the-long-term-sustainability-of-clearlydefined-osi-and-aboutcode-sign-mou)
and the signed
[Memorandum of Understanding](https://opensource.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/MoU-AboutCode-OSI-ClearlyDefined.pdf).
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advisories:
label: advisories
permalink: /advisories
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description: Posts about security advisories, related data, import in AboutCode.

agent:
label: agent
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description: Posts about AI agents and agentic workflows.

api:
label: api
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atom:
label: atom
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description: Posts about atom, a code analysis tool.

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dependencies:
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permalink: /dependencies
description: dependencies tag description
description: Posts about software dependencies, resolution, and graphs.

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description: Posts about software released choices of licenses.

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description: Posts about Java(tm) software.

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label: GenAI
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description: license clarity scoring tag description
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description: Posts about license clarity scoring to measure license documentation quality.

license compliance:
label: license compliance
permalink: /license compliance
description: license compliance tag description
permalink: /license-compliance
description: Posts about open source license compliance processes and tooling.

license detection:
label: license detection
permalink: /license detection
description: license detection tag description
permalink: /license-detection
description: Posts about license detection.

purl:
label: PURL
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description: PURL tag description
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description: Posts about Package URL (PURL), the standard identifier for software packages.

SCA automation:
label: SCA automation
permalink: /SCA automation
description: SCA automation tag description
permalink: /sca-automation
description: Posts about Software Composition Analysis workflows, and automation.

rust:
label: Rust
permalink: /rust
description: Rust tag description
description: Posts about the Rust programming language or ecoystem.

scancode:
label: ScanCode
permalink: /scancode
description: ScanCode tag description
description: Posts about ScanCode Toolkit and ScanCode.io.

vcio:
label: vcio
permalink: /vcio
description: vcio tag description
description: Posts about VulnerableCode.io.

vers:
label: VERS
permalink: /VERS
description: VERS tag description
permalink: /vers
description: Posts about VERS, the version range specification used alongside PURL.

version control:
label: version control
permalink: /version control
description: version control tag description
permalink: /version-control
description: Posts about version control.

vulnerabilities:
label: vulnerabilities
permalink: /vulnerabilities
description: vulnerabilities tag description
description: Posts about software vulnerabilities.
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