License risk management
Master the art of managing open source licenses with Debricked.
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Master the art of managing open source licenses with Debricked.
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When working with open source, it is crucial to ensure and maintain open-source compliance, also from a commercial perspective. To help with that, Debricked provides you with a comprehensive overview of all licenses in the repositories you have integrated with us. You can find that information in different areas of the tool.
To view licenses, click License tab on the left side menu. Here, you can view the with a list of all your licenses in alphabetical order. The screen displays the following information:
Name: The name of license.
License Risk - The grade of potential compliance risks involved with the specific license, assessed based on the use case chosen for the repository.
Dependencies - The number of dependencies affected by the license.
License family - The family to which the license belongs.
To view all repositories affected by license, follow these steps:
Click License tab on the left side menu. Here, you can view the with a list of all your licenses in alphabetical order.
Click a specific license to view all repositories with that specific license. Here, you can also view the risk associated with the license within all affected repositories, as well as how many dependencies per repository are affected.
After you click a specific repository, the above-mentioned information can also be found in the Licences tab.
This feature is only available for Enterprise users.
As a Repository or Company Admin (Enterprise), you can review and manually override the license found by Debricked on a dependency level.
To do so:
From a repository page, go to the License tab. Here you can view the list of all licenses detected in the repository.
Click Review. Here, you can find a list of all licenses detected and can override the data.
Depending on your needs, you can:
Delete the license by clicking the trashcan icon.
Change the detected license, by clicking Change license and selecting a new one from the dropdown menu
Add license(s) by clicking the + button for multi-licensing.
