Why IP Ingredients?

Including IP ingredients labels for software products provides customers, investors, and partners with:

• Standardized formats that enable them to quickly find the information they need to make informed legal and business decisions regarding products they bring into their code bases and/or behind their firewalls


• List of third-party licenses that help them see how the software fits into an overall IT or purchasing strategy


• Verification about a vendor's claims regarding the quantity and quality of its intellectual property


• Standardized formats that make purchasing, acquisition, investment, and partnering comparisons easier


• Ability to promote the reuse and distribution of open source software, if applicable