Code suggestion license reference
watsonx Code Assistant
Watsonx Code Assistant checks whether a generated code suggestion is similar to other code sources.
The generated code must be 10 or more lines in these languages:
- C
- C++
- Go
- Java
- JavaScript
- Python
- TypeScript
By default, watsonx Code Assistant blocks code suggestions that are similar to other code sources.
For some licenses, you can allow code suggestions that include a license reference. For more information, see Configuring how code suggestions are displayed.
This table lists the licenses for which you can allow code suggestions:
| Group | License |
|---|---|
| MIT Licenses | MIT No Attribution (mit-0) |
| MIT Licenses | Enlightenment License (e16) (MIT-advertising) |
| MIT Licenses | CMU License (MIT-CMU) |
| MIT Licenses | enna License (MIT-enna) |
| MIT Licenses | feh License (MIT-feh) |
| MIT Licenses | MIT License (MIT) |
| MIT Licenses | MIT +no-false-attribs license (MITNFA) |
| Apache Software Licenses | Apache License 1.0 (Apache-1.0) |
| Apache Software Licenses | Apache License 1.1 (Apache-1.1) |
| Apache Software Licenses | Apache License 2.0 (Apache-2.0) |
| Lesser General Public Licenses | GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1 only (LGPL-2.1) |
| Lesser General Public Licenses | GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only (LGPL-3.0) |
| General Public Licenses | GNU General Public License v2.0 only (GPL-2.0) |
| General Public Licenses | GNU General Public License v3.0 only (GPL-3.0) |
| General Public Licenses | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 (AGPL-3.0) |
| Creative Commons | Creative Commons Attribution 1.0 Generic (CC-BY-1.0) |
| Creative Commons | Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC-BY-2.0) |
| Creative Commons | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-3.0) |
| Creative Commons | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0) |
| Creative Commons | Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal (CC0-1.0) |
| Creative Commons | Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International (CC-BY-SA-4.0) |
| Berkeley Software Distribution | BSD 1-Clause License (BSD-1-Clause) |
| Berkeley Software Distribution | BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License (BSD-2-Clause) |
| Berkeley Software Distribution | BSD 2-Clause FreeBSD License (BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD) |
| Berkeley Software Distribution | BSD 2-Clause NetBSD License (BSD-2-Clause-NetBSD) |
| Berkeley Software Distribution | BSD-2-Clause Plus Patent License (BSD-2-Clause-Patent) |
| Berkeley Software Distribution | BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License (BSD-3-Clause) |
| Berkeley Software Distribution | BSD with attribution (BSD-3-Clause-Attribution) |
| Berkeley Software Distribution | BSD 3-Clause Clear License (BSD-3-Clause-Clear) |
| Berkeley Software Distribution | Lawrence Berkeley National Labs BSD variant license (BSD-3-Clause-LBNL) |
| Berkeley Software Distribution | BSD 3-Clause No Nuclear License (BSD-3-Clause-No-Nuclear-License) |
| Berkeley Software Distribution | BSD 3-Clause No Nuclear License 2014 (BSD-3-Clause-No-Nuclear-License-2014) |
| Berkeley Software Distribution | BSD 3-Clause No Nuclear Warranty (BSD-3-Clause-No-Nuclear-Warranty) |
| Berkeley Software Distribution | BSD 3-Clause Open MPI variant (BSD-3-Clause-Open-MPI) |
| Berkeley Software Distribution | BSD 4-Clause "Original" or "Old" License (BSD-4-Clause) |
| Berkeley Software Distribution | BSD-4-Clause (University of California-Specific) (BSD-4-Clause-UC) |
| Berkeley Software Distribution | BSD Source Code Attribution (BSD-Source-Code) |
| Berkeley Software Distribution | BSD Zero Clause License (0BSD) |
| Public Domain | The Unlicense (Unlicense) |
| Business Source Licenses | Boost Software License 1.0 (BSL-1.0) |
| Internet Systems Consortium | ISC License (ISC) |
This table lists the licenses for which code suggestions are always blocked. This setting can't be configured.
| License |
|---|
| adobe-2006 |
| adobe-glyph |
| adsl |
| amdplpa |
| aml |
| ampas |
| antlr-pd |
| apafml |
| artistic-2.0 |
| barr |
| blueoak-1.0.0 |
| boost software license 1.0 |
| bzip2-1.0.6 |
| cecill-2.1 |
| cecill-b |
| cnri-python-gpl-compatible |
| condor-1.1 |
| curl |
| do what the f*ck you want to public license |
| doc |
| ecl-1.0 |
| ecl-2.0 |
| eclipse public license 1.0 |
| eclipse public license 2.0 |
| educational community license v2.0 |
| efl-2.0 |
| egenix |
| epl-1.0 |
| epl-2.0 |
| european union public license 1.2 |
| fair |
| fsfap |
| fsful |
| ftl |
| giftware |
| hpnd |
| ibm internal |
| ibm-pibs |
| icu |
| ijg |
| imagemagick |
| info-zip |
| intel |
| jasper-2.0 |
| leptonica |
| libpng |
| libpng-2.0 |
| libtiff |
| linux-openib |
| microsoft public license |
| miros |
| mozilla public license 2.0 |
| mpich2 |
| mpl-2.0 |
| ms-pl |
| ms-rl |
| mtll |
| mulanpsl-1.0 |
| mulanpsl-2.0 |
| multics |
| mup |
| nasa-1.3 |
| naumen |
| ncsa |
| net-snmp |
| netcdf |
| nlpl |
| nrl |
| ntp |
| ofl-1.1 |
| oldap-2.2.1 |
| oldap-2.3 |
| oldap-2.4 |
| oldap-2.5 |
| oldap-2.6 |
| oldap-2.7 |
| oldap-2.8 |
| oml |
| openssl |
| osl-3.0 |
| other |
| php-3.0 |
| php-3.01 |
| plexus |
| postgresql |
| psf-2.0 |
| python-2.0 |
| qhull |
| ruby |
| sgi-b-2.0 |
| spencer-86 |
| spencer-94 |
| swl |
| tcl |
| tcp-wrappers |
| tu-berlin-1.0 |
| tu-berlin-2.0 |
| upl-1.0 |
| vim |
| vsl-1.0 |
| w3c |
| w3c-19980720 |
| w3c-20150513 |
| wtfpl |
| x11 |
| xerox |
| xfree86-1.1 |
| xinetd |
| xnet |
| xpp |
| zed |
| zend-2.0 |
| zlib |
| zlib-acknowledgement |
| zpl-1.1 |
| zpl-2.0 |
| zpl-2.1 |