LEGAL & COMPLIANCE

Put every legal risk on your radar

Manage your software licensing risk with automated compliance built into your software development lifecycle.

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Smarter risk management professionals use Nexus solutions to eliminate open source risk.

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Smarter risk management professionals use Nexus solutions to eliminate open source risk.

Smarter risk management professionals use Nexus solutions to eliminate open source risk.

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Smarter risk management professionals use Nexus solutions to eliminate open source risk.

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Pillars of Open Source Compliance 

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Transparency into binding open source licencing requirements before, during and after the software development process.

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Avoiding copyright infringement by understanding "copyleft" legal obligations within third-party code.

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Having a full Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) for shipped applications to prove third-party licensing obligations and copyright requirements.

See what Nexus Lifecycle’s Advanced Legal Pack can do for your team.

See what Nexus Lifecycle’s Advanced Legal Pack can do for your team.

Expert License Guidance at Your Fingertips

Access the most comprehensive database of open source license obligations available

Get extensive insights on open source license obligations across multiple categories, types, and threat groups that is continuously updated by the Sonatype Data Research team. Our collection includes extended data like copyrights, notices, and license texts — all to increase your productivity and decrease legal risk.

Access the most comprehensive database of open source license obligations available

Get extensive insights on open source license obligations across multiple categories, types, and threat groups that is continuously updated by the Sonatype Data Research team. Our collection includes extended data like copyrights, notices, and license texts — all to increase your productivity and decrease legal risk.

Enjoy a single view for license obligations and full license text

Our artificial intelligence and machine-learning algorithms can automatically identify every open source component license used in an application build and display it on dashboard view to help you quickly determine which obligations have already been met and fulfilled. From there, use our legal workflows to walk you through resolving obligations, copyright, and other compliance issues. Once all obligations are met and approved, you can save your reports so you can reuse those resolutions in the future.

License Obligations Dashboard

License Obligations Dashboard

Enjoy a single view for license obligations and full license text

Our artificial intelligence and machine-learning algorithms can automatically identify every open source component license used in an application build and display it on dashboard view to help you quickly determine which obligations have already been met and fulfilled. From there, use our legal workflows to walk you through resolving obligations, copyright, and other compliance issues. Once all obligations are met and approved, you can save your reports so you can reuse those resolutions in the future.

License Obligations Dashboard

Continuous updates provide visibility for legal teams.

Gone are the days where you spend thousands of hours a year manually pulling attribution data. We’ve automated the collection, compilation, and reporting of the necessary legal data to comply with open source license obligations and auto-generate an attribution report.

License Obligations Dashboard

Continuous updates provide visibility for legal teams.

Gone are the days where you spend thousands of hours a year manually pulling attribution data. We’ve automated the collection, compilation, and reporting of the necessary legal data to comply with open source license obligations and auto-generate an attribution report.