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Developer Open-Source License Compliance Experience Survey

Measures how developers navigate open-source license compliance, including confidence levels, tooling satisfaction, workflow clarity, and key barriers. Designed for engineering teams and developer-tool organizations seeking to improve compliance processes and SBOM adoption.

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24 questions · ~11 min
Q01
Message

Welcome! Thank you for participating in this survey about open-source license compliance practices. This should take approximately 11 minutes. Your responses are confidential and will be reported only in aggregate. There are no right or wrong answers — we are interested in your honest experience. Participation is voluntary and you may stop at any time.

Q02
Multiple Choice

In the last 3 months, how often did you write or review production code?

  • Daily
  • Several times a week
  • Weekly
  • Less than weekly
  • Not in the last 3 months
Q03
Opinion Scale

How confident are you in interpreting common open-source licenses (e.g., MIT, Apache 2.0, GPL) for your own code?

Scale: 1 – 7
Min:Not at all confidentMax:Very confident
Q04
Multiple Choice

Do you currently use any tools for license compliance (e.g., SCA scanners, SBOM generators)?

  • Yes
  • No
  • Not sure
Q05
Ranking

Rank the following barriers to improving license compliance in your organization from most to least impactful.

  1. Unclear obligations or terminology
  2. Tooling noise or false positives
  3. Lack of time or competing priorities
  4. Missing or unclear internal policy
  5. Legal review delays or unavailability
  6. Complex transitive dependencies
Drag to rank
Q06
Long Text

Based on your experience, what one change would make open-source license compliance clearer or easier for you?

Q07
Multiple Choice

What is your primary role?

  • Software engineer/developer
  • Engineering manager
  • Security/compliance engineer
  • DevOps/SRE
  • Legal/compliance
  • Product/Program manager
  • Other (please specify)
Q08
Message

Thank you for completing this survey. Your responses will help improve open-source license compliance tools, policies, and documentation. Results will be reported in aggregate only.

Q09
Multiple Choice

Which ecosystem do you primarily work in?

  • JavaScript/Node
  • Python
  • Java
  • C/C++
  • .NET
  • Go
  • Rust
  • Ruby
  • Mobile (Android/iOS)
  • Data/ML (e.g., R, Julia)
  • Other (please specify)
Q10
Opinion Scale

How clear is your organization's open-source license compliance process to you?

Scale: 1 – 7
Min:Very unclearMax:Very clear
Q11
Multiple Choice

Which type of tool is most useful to you for license compliance?

  • Software composition analysis (dependency scanning)
  • License text scanners
  • SBOM generators
  • Package manager audit commands
  • CI/CD policy gates
  • Custom scripts or queries
Q12
Opinion Scale

How valuable is having a software bill of materials (SBOM) for managing license compliance in your projects?

Scale: 1 – 7
Min:Not at all valuableMax:Extremely valuable
Q13
AI Interview

We'd like to explore your compliance experience in a bit more depth. What specific challenges or gaps have you encountered that the previous questions did not fully cover?

Q14
Multiple Choice

How many years of professional coding experience do you have?

  • 0–1
  • 2–4
  • 5–9
  • 10–14
  • 15+
  • Prefer not to say
Q15
Multiple Choice

In the past 6 months, were you involved in selecting, reviewing, or complying with open-source licenses for your code?

  • Yes
  • No
  • Not sure
Q16
Message

How clear are each of the following activities in your current workflow?

Q17
Opinion Scale

Overall, how satisfied are you with your current license compliance tooling?

Scale: 1 – 7
Min:Not at all satisfiedMax:Extremely satisfied
Q18
Multiple Choice

In a typical month, approximately how many hours do you spend on license compliance tasks?

  • 0 (none)
  • 1–2 hours
  • 3–5 hours
  • 6–10 hours
  • 11–20 hours
  • More than 20 hours
Q19
Multiple Choice

Approximately how many employees are in your organization?

  • 1–10
  • 11–50
  • 51–250
  • 251–1,000
  • 1,001–10,000
  • 10,001+
  • Prefer not to say
Q20
Opinion Scale

How clear is the process for choosing an appropriate license for a new project or component?

Scale: 1 – 7
Min:Very unclearMax:Very clear
Q21
Multiple Choice

Where are you primarily located?

  • North America
  • Latin America
  • Europe
  • Middle East & Africa
  • Asia
  • Oceania
  • Prefer not to say
Q22
Opinion Scale

How clear is the process for reviewing licenses of third-party dependencies before adding them?

Scale: 1 – 7
Min:Very unclearMax:Very clear
Q23
Opinion Scale

How clear is the process for generating or maintaining a software bill of materials (SBOM)?

Scale: 1 – 7
Min:Very unclearMax:Very clear
Q24
Multiple Choice

Where do you typically get guidance on open-source license compliance? (Select all that apply)

  • Internal engineering policy
  • In-house legal counsel
  • Automated tooling or scanner documentation
  • Community docs, blogs, or forums
  • External legal resources
  • Package manager or registry guidance
  • None of the above
  • Other (please specify)

What’s included

  • AI follow-ups

    Adaptive probes on open-ended answers that pull out detail a static form would miss.

  • Attention checks

    Built-in safeguards against rushed answers and low-quality respondents.

  • AI-drafted copy

    Wording, ordering, and branching written by the AI — tuned to your research goal.

  • Auto report

    Themes, quotes, and a plain-English summary write themselves once responses come in.

How it compares

We reviewed the closest templates from other survey tools. Here’s what they do well — and where this template goes further.

Why this template

  • Includes an AI follow-up interview that lets developers explain their compliance experience in their own words, going beyond fixed-choice answers
  • Combines confidence and workflow-clarity opinion scales for licensing, dependency review, and SBOM generation with a barrier-ranking exercise, so results show both severity and priority
  • Segments respondents by role, ecosystem, coding experience, and org size, enabling engineering teams to see how compliance friction differs across developer populations
  • Captures tooling usage and satisfaction alongside an open-text question on the one change that would most improve compliance, giving both quantitative and qualitative direction for SBOM and tooling investment

Jotform

Compliance Review Experience Survey Form Template

A generic compliance-review experience form rather than one built for open-source licensing, dependency review, or SBOM workflows. It's a ready-to-field static form template, useful for general compliance feedback but not tailored to developer tooling or license-specific barriers. Customization would be needed to capture OSS-specific concepts like license types or SBOM adoption.

What it does well

  • Ready-to-use, fieldable form builder with drag-and-drop customization
  • Broad applicability across many compliance-review contexts
  • Part of a large template library so it's easy to adapt fields for other purposes

Where it falls short

  • No open-source-license-specific content (e.g., MIT/Apache clarity, SBOM questions) out of the box
  • Static question format only, with no adaptive AI follow-up interview to probe individual answers
  • No published methodology or automated per-response quality scoring

SurveySparrow

Compliance Risk Assessment Questionnaire

This template targets general compliance risk assessment (e.g., regulatory/policy risk) rather than developer-specific open-source license workflows or SBOM practices. It appears to be a fielding-ready questionnaire template, which is a plus, but its scope is broader/generic compliance rather than engineering-team focused. Teams would need to substantially rebuild it to address license types, tooling satisfaction, or compliance barriers relevant to developers.

What it does well

  • Conversational survey format aimed at improving completion rates
  • Ready-made questionnaire structure for compliance risk topics
  • Reporting/dashboard features typical of SurveySparrow's platform

Where it falls short

  • Not designed around developer workflows, OSS license types, or SBOM adoption specifically
  • No adaptive AI interview or voice AI follow-up to explore individual compliance barriers in depth
  • No transparent, published prompt/methodology for how questions probe deeper

Frequently asked questions

What questions are in the “Developer Open-Source License Compliance Experience Survey” template?

The template includes 24 ready-to-use questions, starting with: “Welcome! Thank you for participating in this survey about open-source license compliance practices. This should take app…” · “In the last 3 months, how often did you write or review production code?” · “How confident are you in interpreting common open-source licenses (e.g., MIT, Apache 2.0, GPL) for your own code?”. The full set is previewed above, and every question is editable.

How long does this survey take to complete?

Respondents typically finish the 24 questions in about 11 minutes.

Can I customize this template?

Yes — every question, answer option, and the ordering is editable before you launch. You can add or remove questions, or ask the AI editor to rework the survey around your research goal.

Is this template free to use?

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