How we automated license checking for our Python & JS dependencies

• LicenseCheck

  1 42 8.2 Python

  Output the licenses used by dependencies and check if these are compatible with the project license (by FHPythonUtils)

  

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.

• util-scripts

  1 0 0.0 Python
  

To check all of our repositories, our ML engineer Felix build an amazing Python script that completely automates the whole license checking of our Python dependencies. You can find the whole script here if you are interested in using it!

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• LicenseFinder

  4 1,686 7.4 Ruby

  Find licenses for your project's 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.

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