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A detailed explanation of the terms Products, Projects, and Organizations in WS is here. In a nutshell: your team is working on a WhiteSource 'product' which may consist of several pieces of software, which are in WhiteSource called 'projects'.

The Product Page page displays detailed information about a specific product (the result of a product scan for a specific version). The product page for a product is accessed from the Products menu item of the main menu and a detailed description is here.

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  • Name - Name of the license
  • Occurrences - Number of occurrences in the organization (or product/project)
  • Copyright - Copyright Risk Score which is a measurement of the copyright risk

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(BM)

Significant tables and charts and how to find, customise and interpret them...

Libraries and dependencies

Licenses

Interpreting WS information about licences

The difference in interpreting the presence of a problematic library when assessing the situation vs exploring license compatibility and compliance options vs checking compliance with the established product's licence

same policy/licence across projects in the product vs differentiated project policies

Vulnerabilities

Outdated libraries

Interpreting Risk report

The Risk Report is a management-level tool that provides a bird's-eye view of all aspects of an account's open-source libraries concerning their licenses, security, quality and compliance.
The report is available from the "Reports" menu. More about this is here.

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