This guide will show you how to edit the License Risk Policy in Kiuwan Insights.
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Licenses Policies Management
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As explained in Insights Licenses > LicenseRisk there's a default policy to assign a License Risk to
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licenses found during Insights analysis.
- High is associated to with Copyleft, Copyrighted, and PropietaryProprietary
- None is associated to with PublicDomain, Permissive, and WeakCopyleft
- Unknown is associated to associated with licenses that without a License Type.
This default policy is quite conservative, it raises an alert when some license might have a legal implication. But, depending on the concrete case, the alert might not apply to your organization or you don't need to be alerted about certain licenses.
In these cases, Kiuwan Insights' Licenses Policies lets you to change the License Risk of any License to suite suit your concrete needs.
Required Permissions
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In order to To make changes to License Policies, only users granted with Application Management permission are allowed to access Policies Management modules. |
Scope of Changes
Custom changes to the level of License Risk of a License can be applied to several scopes
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Global | 1 | Change to the license are is global, i.e. it applies to all components of all the apps that are using that license. Change The change applies to current components as well as new components discovered in future analyses. |
Application | 2 | Change to the license applies to all components of the selected app that are using that license. Change The change applies to current components as well as new components discovered in future analyses. Components belonging to other app using this license remain unchanged |
Component | 3 | Change to the license applies to the selected component, regardless of the app using the component |
App-Comp | 4 | Change to the license applies to the selected component in the selected app. Selected components using this license belonging to other app remain unchanged. |
Precedence The precedence column means the apllicability applicability in case of conflicts, being applied the case with higher precedence value.
For example, we could have configured:
- License L is High for application A (application scope: 2)
- License L is Medium for component C (component scope: 3)
What will be the level for component C in application A? Precedence 3>2, L will be Medium for C in A.
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Changes to Licenses are applied retroactively, i.e. changes will be applied not only to future analyses but also to past analyses |
How to change Licenses Policies
Changes to Licenses Risks can be done at several pages:
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Gobal
Global Licenses Administration
Kiuwan Insights lets you to globally administrate the Licenses found within your Kiuwan account.
You can access access the Global License Admin by selecting Licenses Policies at the License tab's hamburguer hamburger menu.
Licenses Policies allows you to make changes based on Licenses and/or Components
By License
When "By License" tab is is selected, the full list of Licenses used by your application's components is displayed
Clicking on Modify button of a License will open Click Modify to open the Modify License Policy dialog.
Global scope
- By selecting the Custom Global Risk dropdown list at the License level, you will change it to the Global scope.
Application scope
- Additionally, by selecting the Custom Risk dropdown list of an application, you will change it to the Application scope.
See Scope of Changes for an explanation of scopes.
By Component
When "By Component" tab tab is selected, the full list of Componets Components used by your application ' is displayed
Clicking on Modify button of a License will open Click Modify to open the Modify License Policy dialog.
Component scope
- By selecting selecting the Custom Global Risk dropdown list at the Component level, you will change it to Component scope.
Application scope
- Additionally, by selecting the Custom Risk dropdown list of an application, you will change it to to the App-Comp scope.
See Scope of Changes for an explanation of scopes.
Licenses page
You can modify the License Risk of any license/component component from the License tab.
By License
Just click on the dropdown menu at the right of a specific License and select Modify Policy.
Clicking on Modify Policy will open Modify License Policy dialog
Then, you can decide either to change the level at a Global or Application scope
See Scope of Changes for an explanation of scopes.
By Component
If you want to modify the License Risk level of a specific Component, open the License row and select Modify License option of the selected component.
Clicking on Click Modify Policy will open to open the Modify License Policy dialog for the selected component
Then, you can decide either to change the level at a Component (Global value) or or App-Comp (Application value) scope
See Scope of Changes for an explanation of scopes.
Insights Management
Open the drop-down menu on the upper-right and select Insights Management.
The following page will open:
Please follow the instructions in the previous paragraphs to modify the license policy.