Top 6 Go License Projects

go-licenses

1 765 4.1 Go

A lightweight tool to report on the licenses used by a Go package and its dependencies. Highlight! Versioned external URL to licenses can be found at the same time.
addlicense

1 673 2.9 Go

A program which ensures source code files have copyright license headers by scanning directory patterns recursively

Project mention: Add License Headers to Your Code Files | dev.to | 2023-08-28

This is where license header adding tools come in handy. One commonly used tool is the addlicense project under the 'google' organization. 'addlicense' allows you to add license statements to specified files via command-line interaction. However, 'addlicense' has limited functionality; it only adds license headers to files. Some issues raised for 'addlicense' include:
InfluxDB

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chainloop

3 271 9.5 Go

Chainloop is an Open Source Metadata Vault for your Software Supply Chain metadata, SBOMs, VEX, SARIF files, QA reports, and more.

Project mention: Choosing the “old stuff” as plugin SDK for Go in 2023 | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-07-06
gitgen

2 4 0.0 Go

Generate license and gitignore files from Go without an internet connection. It also has a convenience CLI, but can be used as a library as well
pm

1 3 0.0 Go

Project Metadata Management (by sentilis)
nwa

1 2 7.9 Go

A More Powerful License Header Management Tool

Project mention: Add License Headers to Your Code Files | dev.to | 2023-08-28

This article introduces a more powerful license statement management tool called NWA. It helps you effortlessly add license headers to your code files and also check, update, and remove existing license statements, ensuring the legality and compliance of your code.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020). The latest post mention was on 2023-08-28.