Licenses

Licenses are located close to the source files. You can find a LICENSE file, containing the details of the license, at the top of every nRF Connect SDK repository. Each file included in the repositories also has an SPDX identifier that mentions this license.

Open-source licenses

If a folder or set of files is open source and included in nRF Connect SDK under its own license (for example, any of the Apache or MIT licenses), it will have either its own LICENSE file included in the folder or the license information embedded inside the source files themselves.

License report

You can use the west ncs-sbom utility to generate a license report. It allows you to generate a report for the nRF Connect SDK, built application, or specific files. The tool is highly configurable. It uses several detection methods, such as:

  • Search based on SPDX tags.

  • Search license information in files.

  • The Scancode-Toolkit.

Depending on your configuration, the report is generated in HTML or SPDX, or in both formats. See the Software Bill of Materials script documentation for more information.