About custom licenses

If you discover that a license that you use for a component in your BOM is not available from Black Duck KnowledgeBase, License Managers – users with the License Manager role – can create and manage custom licenses. These custom licenses can then be selected for a component version in a BOM to ensure that the BOMs are accurate.

Note: If Black Duck KnowledgeBase is missing an open source license, instead of creating a custom license, you can contact Black Duck Support to request that this license be added to the KnowledgeBase.

Custom licenses:

Consist of a name, a license family, and license text.
Can be used to create policy rules.
Use the same rules to determine license risk as licenses from Black Duck KnowledgeBase.
Can be modified locally in a BOM by users with the appropriate role. That user cannot edit the name or license family but can edit the license text. The edited license text only applies to the version of the license associated with the BOM.

License Managers can use the License Management page to manage custom licenses and Black Duck KnowledgeBase licenses used in all the projects in your organization.