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Approve licenses

To manually approve a license, open the artifact show page to do one of the following tasks:

  • Show the license text. Licenses may be automatically imported from the artifact source code. If the component doesn't have a license (or if an erroneous license), see Add license.
  • Show the license type.
  • Compare the license to a template license type.
  • Approve/Disapprove the license.
1. Compare the license with template

Compare the license text with a known template text to get a quick understanding of the status of the license.

Open license text window by pushing Show.

The ISC License type has a template text for that license. View the template text -> Show template.

Push the Show diff button to compare the license text and the template text. Here they only differs in heading and copyright data i.e. the license can easily identified as an ISC License.

2. Approve

If the license is identified as approved push the Approval slider to change status of the license.

3. Disapprove

If the license is identified as not approved, push the Approval slider to change status of the license.