Lightning Talk Beginner First Talk

Introducing Feluda: Detect license usage restrictions in your project

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Session Description

Remember when you’re building something cool and you pulled in a bunch of dependencies. But some of those come with license restrictions that can block commercial use or force your code open.

Feluda is a CLI tool that scans your dependencies and flags anything tricky before it becomes a problem. In this talk, I’ll show how it works and how it can save your project from legal headaches.

It's written in rust, built as an FOSS project and currently supports rust, go, js and python projects.

Key Takeaways

Stay safe from unwanted complicated dependency licensing.
Use alternate project or dependency that's less restrictive.
Adjust your project license when needed.

References

https://github.com/anistark/feluda

https://blog.anirudha.dev/feluda

Session Categories

Introducing a FOSS project or a new version of a popular project

Technology / FOSS licenses, policy

Speakers

Kumar Anirudha

Product builder and open source contributor.

Currently, exploring serverless computing with WASM.

Farhaan Bukhsh

Senior Software Engineer | OpenCraft

Farhaan Bukhsh is an open-source contributor, Pythonista and now a newbie rustacean. With a background in cloud infrastructure and platform engineering, Farhaan has contributed extensively to projects like Fedora and Open edX, where he is a core committer and current release manager. He's passionate about bridging the performance gap between Python and system-level programming, recently exploring the power of Rust to accelerate machine learning workflows. When he's not writing code, Farhaan enjoys mentoring new contributors, organizing tech communities, and brewing the perfect pour-over coffee.

Reviews

Reviewer #1 Approved

Reviewer #2 Approved