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.

Licenses Tab

Field

Description

License

Select the desired license from the License dropdown list. Alternatively, enter a string found in the license name to filter the list, and then select the license from the filtered list.

Id

The internal identification number generated for the license in the Code Insight data library.

Name

The name of the license, along with its short name (usually the SPDX short identifier) in parentheses.

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.

Priority

The priority ranking of the license as determined by Code Insight. For more information, see License Priority.

URL

The URL link to the license website.

Description

A short description of the license.

Category

Currently not in use.

Policy

Currently not is use.

Custom License

The Yes or No indicator specifying whether this license was manually created in Code Insight.

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.

Commercial

Currently not in use.

Copyleft

Currently not in use.

Free Software License

The Yes or No indicator specifying whether the license is considered to be a free software license.

GPL V2 Compatible

The Yes or No indicator specifying whether the license is compatible with GPL v2.0.

Patent License Grant

Currently not in use.

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.