In the context of software release, ensuring compliance and mitigating legal risks is crucial, particularly when dealing with open source software (OSS) components. The blog post discusses the challenges of enforcing OSS policies, highlighting the risks of unidentified components leading to potential license violations and costly legal issues. It outlines scenarios where license compliance is necessary, such as due diligence during company sales or fundraising, new product development, and ongoing product releases, where teams must manually track and review OSS licenses. JFrog Xray is presented as a solution to automate and simplify these compliance processes, offering functionalities like Policies to enforce license regulations and a component license report to eliminate manual tracking by automatically generating comprehensive OSS license reports. These tools help organizations efficiently assess and ensure the compliance of their OSS components, reducing the risk of errors and saving significant time and resources.