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ADVANCED LEGAL PACK
Effortless Open Source License Compliance
Streamline open source compliance with quicker legal reviews and observed license detection
Save hours on open source license compliance reporting and strengthen your legal posture with full visibility.
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Welcome to the interactive demo of Sonatype’s Advanced Legal Pack (ALP)!
In this walkthrough, you'll learn how ALP simplifies legal compliance management by helping you identify and fulfill license obligations. A common license obligation is to attribute the project, lets see how you can do that quickly for all the project libraries being used in your application.
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Turn Compliance Chaos into Legal Clarity
Enhance legal compliance throughout the SDLC with Sonatype Advanced Legal Pack (ALP) that integrates seamlessly with Sonatype Lifecycle and SBOM Manager. Strengthen your legal posture and simply open source compliance with automated legal data collection, streamlined license reviews and comprehensive reporting.
Sonatype SBOM Manager
Automate legal workflows and actionable license insights to simplify compliance and save hours of manual review.
Sonatype Lifecycle
Streamline license compliance with automated policies and early insights integrated into your SCA workflows.
Automated Open Source Compliance, Focus on Innovation
Streamline open source license compliance with real-time detection, clear legal insights, and customizable policy automation — built to save time and reduce risk.
Automated Compliance Reporting
Simplify the burdensome task of manually collecting and analyzing data to create compliance documents, third party notices, and attribution reports. Automatically generate reports to comply with open source license obligations and save attributions for each component. With the click of a button, fulfill more than 90% of your obligations.
Streamline License Management
With 2,000+ open source licenses cataloged, annotated, and analyzed in our Advanced Legal Pack (ALP), Sonatype provides unmatched visibility into legal risk. We can automatically list obligations inside the license file and generate an automated obligations report, reducing manual effort and ensuring accuracy.
Actionable Legal Intelligence
Get the exact data you need to best comply with outstanding open source license obligations. Our machine learning algorithms and natural language processing detect legal data including notice texts, license texts, and copyright statements. Analyze thousands of licenses and obligations in minutes and integrate that data right into your open source compliance workflows.
Smarter Open Source Compliance Starts with Automation and Policy Control
Observed license detection across all major open source ecosystems
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More open source licenses detected with ALP
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Reduction in legal review time per component
Streamline Open Source Software Compliance with Automation, Accuracy, and Actionable Legal Intelligence
Compliance Reporting Time
Save hours on compliance reporting with automated, attribution-ready reports.
License Obligation Workflow
Ensure license compliance with a streamlined, precise workflow for tracking obligations.
Legal Compliance Speed
Accelerate legal compliance using actionable intelligence integrated into your workflows.
Attribution Reporting
Automatically generate reports and save accurate attributions for every open source component.
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Blog Post
[Slaying the dragon of OSS legal compliance with Advanced Legal Pack](/content/blog/slaying-the-dragon-of-oss-legal-compliance-with-the-advanced-legal-pack "Internal link to Slaying the dragon of OSS legal compliance with Advanced Legal Pack blog post"/index.html)
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Whitepaper
[Securing Your Software Supply Chain: A Boardroom and C-Suite Imperative](/content/resources/whitepapers/securing-your-ssc "Internal link to Securing Your Software Supply Chain: A Boardroom and C-Suite Imperative blog post"/index.html)
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Blog Post
[Open Source Policy Management: How Sonatype Supports Security at Scale](/content/blog/open-source-policy-management-how-sonatype-supports-security-at-scale "Internal link to Open Source Policy Management: How Sonatype Supports Security at Scale blog post"/index.html)
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Advanced Legal Pack (ALP), and how does it enhance SBOM Manager and Lifecycle?
The Advanced Legal Pack is an add-on to Sonatype SBOM Manager and Sonatype Lifecycle that provides automated license obligation detection, observed license data across 13 major ecosystems, and export-ready legal reports. It enables teams to streamline legal reviews and strengthen open source license compliance.
How does ALP help reduce legal risk and license violations?
Advanced Legal Pack (ALP) automatically identifies open source license obligations and detects up to 66% more license data than standard tools. This ensures that you don’t miss critical licensing requirements, reducing the risk of legal action, audit failures, and non-compliance penalties.
Can ALP automate legal reporting and attribution?
Yes. Advanced Legal Pack (ALP) generates attribution-ready reports automatically, saving hours of manual work and enabling organizations to stay audit-ready. These reports include detailed license texts, notices, and copyright statements to meet compliance obligations efficiently.
Who benefits most from using ALP with SBOM Manager and Lifecycle?
Legal, compliance, and engineering teams responsible for managing open source use at scale. Advanced Legal Pack (ALP) empowers them with actionable legal intelligence, streamlined obligation workflows, and flexible policy controls — all integrated directly into their open source software compliance and development processes.
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