If you use open source code in your products or projects, you need to comply with the licenses of the open source code. You might believe that if you’ve kept copyleft-licensed code out, you are home-free. Sadly this is not the case.
At a minimum, you need to deliver correct legal notices with your software. The legal notices should list all the components in your software, and for each component show
- Its licenses,
- The copyright statements, and
- Any other notices that came with the code.
Fail to create legal notices, and you might get sued by the copyright owners of the open source code. Lawsuits typically focus on attribution, that is the copyright notices, because open source programmers would like to be given credit for their work.
SCA Tool makes it easy to create legal notices for your software. We generate the legal notices from your SBOM. At the click of a button or a call to our REST-API, you can download the required legal notices and add them to your software for license-compliant distribution.