FlexNet Code Insight 2018 R3
You want to understand the priority of licenses in your codebase so you can handle them based on your corporate policies. FlexNet Code Insight has a default license priority to highlight which inventory items are more important than others, helping to define day-one work items.
Each license you view in the License Details has one of the following priority values:
| • | P1: Viral/Strong Copyleft (red icon). Usually, P1 licenses require immediate attention due to the possibility of tainting proprietary application code which can have significant business impact. |
| • | P2: Weak Copyleft/Commercial/Uncommon (yellow icon). The typical P2 license requires legal review and guidance based on corporate policies about the proper use of these types of licenses in your organization. |
| • | P3: Permissive/Public Domain (green icon). In general, P3 licenses are allowed and have minimal impact to an organization as long as license obligations are satisfied. The most common license obligation is properly attributing the use of an open source component to its author. |
Inventory priority is a risk metric for the inventory item that takes license priority into account as one of the contributing factors. Inventory priority is set at scan time when the inventory item is created by the system or during inventory review. You can set or override the inventory priority at any time. License priority, on the other hand, is static and never changes. The license priority is supplied by electronic update.
Inventory priority typically defaults to the license priority value unless you manually override the inventory priority value. For information about changing the value, see Displaying Project Inventory.
Note • FlexNet Code Insight REST APIs that reference the license entity, such as the Component Lookup API, include the license priority in the API response body.
FlexNet Code Insight 2018 R3 Help LibraryOctober 2018 |
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