Maybe the request will come from your CEO, following a request from the board of directors; or maybe it will come from a large account needing to validate the originality of its software supply chain; or perhaps the request will come from your legal team trying to produce a certificate for the company’s intellectual property.
But, one day, you will be asked to provide an open source inventory report, a detailed list of your open source components bill of materials (BoM) in your code, including all dependencies and affiliated licenses.