Commit 9913dded authored by Gerardo Gutierrez's avatar Gerardo Gutierrez Committed by Suzanne Selhorn

Added activation section

parent a6dec7d9
......@@ -26,8 +26,9 @@ You can take advantage of License Compliance by either:
[Auto License Compliance](../../../topics/autodevops/stages.md#auto-license-compliance),
provided by [Auto DevOps](../../../topics/autodevops/index.md).
The [License Finder](https://github.com/pivotal/LicenseFinder) scan tool runs as part of the CI/CD
pipeline, and detects the licenses in use. GitLab checks the License Compliance report, compares the
To detect the licenses in use, License Compliance uses the [License Finder](https://github.com/pivotal/LicenseFinder) scan tool that runs as part of the CI/CD pipeline.
For the job to activate, License Finder needs to find a compatible package definition in the project directory. For details, see the [Activation on License Finder documentation](https://github.com/pivotal/LicenseFinder#activation).
GitLab checks the License Compliance report, compares the
licenses between the source and target branches, and shows the information right on the merge
request. Denied licenses are indicated by a `x` red icon next to them as well as new licenses that
need a decision from you. In addition, you can [manually allow or deny](#policies) licenses in your
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