LicenseFinder
Find licenses for your project's dependencies. (by pivotal)
LicenseCheck
Output the licenses used by dependencies and check if these are compatible with the project license (by FHPythonUtils)
LicenseFinder | LicenseCheck | |
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4 | 1 | |
1,686 | 42 | |
0.6% | - | |
7.4 | 8.2 | |
13 days ago | 30 days ago | |
Ruby | Python | |
MIT License | MIT License |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
LicenseFinder
Posts with mentions or reviews of LicenseFinder.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-25.
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Show HN: Update your libraries using AI
Listing the benefits over tools like dependabot and LicenseFinder [1] would help. What does the AI actually do? Summarize dependency changelogs?
One of my projects [2] wraps LicenceFinder in a GitHub action (Ruby only until I merge a pending PR).
[1] https://github.com/pivotal/LicenseFinder
[2] https://github.com/ralexander-phi/license_approval
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What's the most stressful moment in your data science career?
Obviously that line didn’t fly. What we agreed upon was having a set of license types that were “allowed” and “not allowed”. I know python isn’t as mature in their package management, but you can have something like https://github.com/pivotal/LicenseFinder view the licenses for your configuration.
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How we automated license checking for our Python & JS dependencies
As an alternative, we've found LincenseFinder, which is an awesome open-source tool to check dependencies for JavaScript. The tool checks the package.json file of a repository and tells you the used licenses. You can also create a list of permitted licenses and LicenseFinder will check if your dependencies are in that list. It basically works very similar as the LicenceChecker for Python did.
- Find licenses for your project's dependencies
LicenseCheck
Posts with mentions or reviews of LicenseCheck.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-28.
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How we automated license checking for our Python & JS dependencies
We have a lot of Python dependencies, so checking these licenses was our biggest priority. When it comes to checking licenses of Python dependencies, we've found a really cool tool called LicenseCheck, which can check the requirements.txt file of a GitHub repository and find the licenses for all the dependencies listed inside the file. LicenseCheck can simply be installed via pip and can then be used to print out all the licenses. This already helps a lot, but when you have 50+ repositories, it's still a lot of manual work.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing LicenseFinder and LicenseCheck you can also consider the following projects:
Gitlab CI - GitLab CE Mirror | Please open new issues in our issue tracker on GitLab.com
Vagrant - Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing development environments.
fastlane - 🚀 The easiest way to automate building and releasing your iOS and Android apps
Jekyll - :globe_with_meridians: Jekyll is a blog-aware static site generator in Ruby