Can SonarQube scan GNU licensed libs etc?

[saramalai (Saravanan Pazhanichamy)]

Hi, I started working on SonarQube support recently. There is a requirement where GNU licensed libs are used in one of the software being built and needs to be scanned.

Is there a way SonarQube to scan these GNU licensed libs that are used?

[Colin]

Hey there.

SonarQube does not perform SCA (Software Component Analysis), including things like checking which licenses are being used by dependencies.

[Colin]

Hello from the future!

We recently announced SonarQube Advanced Security, which will include SCA capabilities. While it’s not available yet, we expect general availability for SonarQube Server in May 2025, and SonarQube Cloud Enterprise shortly after.

Please see this announcement for more details.

Announcing SonarQube Advanced Security

Sonar is excited to announce SonarQube Advanced Security, extending SonarQube’s analysis capabilities beyond first-party and AI-generated code to include third-party open source code. With this, we’re delivering the first fully integrated solution for finding and fixing code quality and code security issues in the development phase of the SDLC. The first step in integrating Sonar’s recent acquisition of Tidelift, SonarQube Advanced Security strengthens a robust set of existing security capabili…