Introducing Apiiro’s New OSS Licenses Experience

Open Source Software (OSS) is the backbone of modern development. With thousands of dependencies powering today’s applications, organizations must balance speed with governance, ensuring that licenses are properly managed and risks are minimized. Yet, navigating OSS license obligations has often been fragmented and frustrating.

Apiiro is excited to introduce our new OSS Licenses experience—a streamlined, context-driven solution that delivers clarity, control, and automation to license management.

Why OSS License Management Matters

Licenses govern how software can be used, distributed, and modified. When unmanaged, they can create serious compliance and legal risks:

• Incompatible licenses that prevent software from being shipped.
• Unknown or missing licenses that introduce uncertainty.
• High-risk obligations that may expose intellectual property.

Traditional approaches bury teams in spreadsheets or fragmented reports, leaving developers and security teams without the visibility they need to take action.

A Context-Driven Experience

Apiiro’s OSS Licenses experience goes beyond raw license data to provide actionable insights in the context of your applications and dependencies.

With Apiiro, you can:

• View licenses by dependency: Understand the obligations tied to every open source component.
• Explore complete license inventories: Drill into each application or repository with a full list of associated licenses.
• Detect edge cases: Identify missing, unknown, or multiple licenses within a single dependency.
• Access rich license details: From OSI/FSF approval to license terms and risk insights.

Govern With Custom Policies

Every organization has unique compliance needs. Apiiro makes it simple to enforce them:

• Build custom license policies to flag unapproved or high-risk licenses.
• Automate enforcement with workflows that detect non-compliant licenses early.
• Reduce legal risk by ensuring obligations are clear, documented, and tracked.

Designed for Developers and Security Teams

The OSS Licenses experience bridges the gap between governance and productivity:

• Security teams gain confidence with complete visibility and policy controls.
• Developers receive actionable insights directly in their workflow without slowing delivery.

By aligning both perspectives, Apiiro ensures license management becomes a seamless part of the software development lifecycle—not an afterthought.

The Bigger Picture

This launch is part of Apiiro’s broader mission to deliver comprehensive Application Security Posture Management (ASPM). By unifying license management with vulnerability insights, compliance, and contextual risk analysis, Apiiro empowers organizations to make smarter, faster, and safer decisions.

Get Started

The new OSS Licenses experience is now available to Apiiro customers. Contact our team to see it in action.

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Repository inventory 

View package license details 

Create risk policies using dependency and license properties.