Licenses Tab
From the Global Component & License Lookup > Licenses tab, users can search the Code Insight data library for a specific OSS or third-party license.
The following table describes the search mechanism used to look up a license from the Licenses tab and provides a description of the attributes displayed for the resulting license.
For more information about this tab, see the following:
| • | For instructions on how to access the Licenses tab, see Exploring Components and Licenses in the Data Library. |
| • | For more information on how to use the Licenses tab, see Exploring Components Globally. |
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Field |
Description |
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License |
Select the desired license from the License dropdown. Alternatively, enter a string found in the license name to filter the list, and then select the license from the filtered list. |
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Id |
The internal identification number generated for the license in the Code Insight data library. |
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Name |
The name of the license, along with its short name (usually the SPDX short identifier) in parentheses. |
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Family |
The family of licenses to which this license belongs, if applicable. The following are examples of family licenses: Apache, BSD, EPL, MIT, and MPL. |
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Priority |
The priority ranking of the license as determined by Code Insight. For more information, see License Priority. |
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URL |
The URL location where the license is available. |
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Description |
A short description of the license. |
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Category |
Currently not in use. |
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Policy |
Currently not is use. |
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Custom License |
The Yes or No indicator specifying whether this license was manually created in Code Insight. |
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Family License |
The Yes or No indicator specifying whether this is a family license from which other OSS licenses are derived. The following are examples of family licenses: Apache, BSD, EPL, MIT, and MPL. |
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Commercial |
Currently not in use. |
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Copyleft |
Currently not in use. |
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Free Software License |
The Yes or No indicator specifying whether the license is considered to be a free software license. |
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GPL V2 Compatible |
The Yes or No indicator specifying whether the license is compatible with GPL v2.0. |
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Patent License Grant |
Currently not in use. |
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License Text |
The complete text of the selected license as stored in the Code Insight data library. This text represents the external forge license text. |