About license conflicts

License terms are the provisions in the license which grant rights or impose restrictions on the use of the software under that license. They indicate the things you can do (permitted), cannot do (forbidden), and must do (required) to comply with the license.

License terms can be in conflict with each other because different licenses can have contradictory requirements. Although license terms for permitted actions cannot be in conflict with other license terms, forbidden or required license terms can be in conflict with each other.

Black Duck has identified those KnowledgeBase license terms that are in conflict with other KnowledgeBase terms that have the same name but opposing responsibilities (a required license term that is incompatible with a forbidden license term).

You can now manage conflicts between open source component licenses that have terms which conflict with the project license. You can also define incompatible terms for your custom license terms.