Go Licenses

go-licenses is a small CLI which allows you to export and check the licenses of your dependencies from your go.mod file.

Installation

go install github.com/aboutyou/go-licenses

Usage

The project uses licenseclassifier to classify the licenses of each package.

Exporting the licenses

To export all modules and their packages run one of the following commands:

go-licenses export csv > licenses.csv

or

go-licenses export json > licenses.json

Check the licenses

The check command validates that all the modules in the project use compatible licenses.

go-licenses check

By default the following licenses are allowed:

• Apache20
• BSD2Clause
• BSD3Clause
• MIT
• Facebook3Clause
• Ruby
• PHP301
• Python20

Ideas

In Go 1.18 there will be a new package debug/buildinfo which will allow us to offer the commands also for compiled Go programms.

This will allow to run license compliance terms on your shipped binaries.

Maintainers

• Henri Beck