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.

Additionally, if you discover a license missing from the Data Library, you can create a custom license for the missing license from the Licenses tab. The custom license is added to the Code Insight database and made immediately available in any of the dropdown lists for a license lookup and from the Licenses tab on the Global Component & License Lookup tab.

For more information about this tab, see the following:

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For instructions on how to access the Licenses tab, see Exploring Components and Licenses in the Data Library.

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For more information on how to use the Licenses tab, see Exploring Licenses Globally.

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For a description of how to use the Licenses tab to create a custom license from scratch, see Creating a Custom 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 license found.

Licenses Tab
Field	Description
License	Select the desired license from the License dropdown list. Alternatively, with the list opened, enter a string found in the license name to filter the list. 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.
External ID	The ID that corresponds to the license in an external system (such as your site’s license-tracking system). This mapping enables you to easily locate the license in the external system. If the license is not mapped to an external ID, this field is blank.
Category	Currently not in use.
Policy	The Yes or No indicator specifying whether a Code Insight policy is defined for the license. (License policies are used to approve or reject inventory items when they are published.).
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.
Create New License	Click this button to open the New Custom License window. From here, you can create a custom license from scratch. For complete instructions, refer to Creating a Custom License.