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Technical Team/Use Cases/2.0/Third party produces bill of materials for software package
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As a software publisher in order to reduce my legal risk I want to understand the obligations associated with my intended use of a software package. I do not have the internal capabilities/capacity to determine this information so i request a third party to analyze my entire codebase to determine all rights holders and licenses for every file in the codebase.
Contents
Stackholders and Interests
- DeveloperThe organization developing (or in possession of) the code that wants to understand the licensing and rights holders of that code.
- Compliance officeThe organization that is responsible for ensuring that the licensing of the code is complied with.
- AnalyzerThird party that need to analyze the codebase and inform the auditee of what the licensing is and who the rights holders are.
Main Success Scenario
- Developers delivers code to analyzer
- Analyzer determines membership in sub-packages/components for each file.
- Analyzer imports/embeds existing SPDX data for sub-packages/components.
- Analyzer extracts licensing and copyright information from remaining files.
- Analyzer determines the following for every remaining file in code base:
- Rights holders
- Licensing terms
- Analyzer provides above data to Compliance office.
- Compliance office looks at concluded licensing and right holder and take any necessary actions to comply with the licenses
Alternate Scenario A
- Developers delivers code to analyzer
- Analyzer determines membership in sub-packages/components for each file.
- Analyzer imports/embeds existing SPDX data for sub-packages/components.
- Analyzer extracts licensing and copyright information from remaining files.
- Analyzer determines the following for every remaining file in code base:
- Rights holders
- Licensing terms
- Analyzer provides above data to Compliance office.
- Compliance office looks at concluded licensing and right holder and determines that certain sub-packages/components are unacceptable.
- Developer removes the offending sub-components.
- Developer delivers modified code to analyzer.
- Analyzer redoes analysis (consider: not redo from scratch but re-using results of the earlier SPDX data) and provide new SPDX data to Compliance office.
- Compliance office looks at concluded licensing and right holder and take any necessary actions to comply with the licenses
A failure scenario
Failed scenario if the third party auditor cannot take advantage of existing SPDX data about external packages/components in producing the SPDX data for the analyzed code which re-uses those external packages/components.