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- High is associated to Copyleft, Copyrighted and Propietary
- None is associated to PublicDomain, Permissive and WeakCopyleft
- Unknown is associated to 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 your concrete needs.
Required Permissions
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In order 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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Scope | Precedence | Meaning |
Global | 1 | Change to the license are global, i.e. it applies to all components of all the apps that are using that license. 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 selected app that are using that license. 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 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 column means the apllicability 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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| Global and/or Application |
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| Component and/or App-Comp |
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Gobal Licenses
Policies pageAdministration
Kiuwan Insights lets you to globally administrate the Licenses found within your Kiuwan account.
You can access access Global License Admin by selecting Licenses Policies page from at License tab's hamburguer menu.
Licenses Policies allows you to make changes based on Licenses and/or Components
By License
When "By License" tab is selected, the full list of Licenses used by your application's components is displayed
Clicking on Modify button of a License will open Modify License Policy dialog.
Global scope
- By selecting Custom Global Risk dropdown list at the License level, you will change it to Global scope.
Application scope
- Additionally, by selecting the Custom Risk dropdown list of an application, you will change it to Application scope.
See Scope of Changes for explanation of scopes.
By Component
When "By Component" tab is selected, the full list of Componets used by your application'is displayed
Clicking on Modify button of a License will open Modify License Policy dialog.
Component scope
- By selecting 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 App-Comp scope.
See Scope of Changes for explanation of scopes.
Licenses page
You can modify the License Risk of any license/component from 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 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 Modify Policy will open Modify License Policy dialog for the selected component
Then, you can decide either to change the level at a Component (Global value) or App-Comp (Application value) scope
See Scope of Changes for explanation of scopes.