Software Technologies Inventory and Attributes

Description — The specific licence governing the enterprise's use of the technology.

Benefit(s) — Determines which obligations actually attach — entitlement compliance, source disclosure, attribution, or none — and governs whether a usage change needs legal review.

Source — Manual.

Examples — Perpetual, Subscription, Per-Core, Apache 2.0, GPL-3.0, MIT

Notes — Crawl-tagged because it governs everything downstream. Distinct from Licensing Model, which records only the broad category.

Description — Reference to the governing licence agreement or open source licence text.

Benefit(s) — Makes the actual terms retrievable when a question arises, rather than relying on recollection of what was agreed.

Source — Manual.

Notes — For commercial technologies, cross-reference the entitlement records held in the software licence and subscription inventories.

Description — The obligations the open source licence creates for the enterprise.

Benefit(s) — Surfaces duties — attribution, source disclosure, copyleft propagation — that are easy to incur unknowingly and expensive to remediate late.

Source — Manual.

Notes — Most consequential where the technology is embedded in something the enterprise distributes. Leave empty for commercial technologies.

Description — Limits the licence places on how, where, or by whom the technology may be used.

Benefit(s) — Prevents deployment or expansion that is technically possible and contractually prohibited.

Source — Manual.

Notes — Common restrictions include environment limits, user or core counts, and prohibitions on use by affiliates or in service delivery to third parties.

Description — Reference to the governing commercial contract, where one exists.

Benefit(s) — Connects the technology to its commercial terms, renewal dates, and negotiated protections.

Source — Manual.

Notes — A typed reference to the contract record rather than a restatement of its content.

Description — Whether the supplier indemnifies the enterprise against intellectual property claims arising from use of the technology.

Benefit(s) — Establishes where legal risk actually sits, which differs sharply between commercial and open source technologies.

Source — Manual.

Notes — Open source technologies are generally supplied without indemnification; recording that explicitly is more useful than leaving the field empty.