Top 10 license-checking Open-Source Projects

• scancode-toolkit

  4 1,972 9.6 Python

  :mag: ScanCode detects licenses, copyrights, dependencies by "scanning code" ... to discover and inventory open source and third-party packages used in your code. Sponsored by NLnet project https://nlnet.nl/project/vulnerabilitydatabase, the Google Summer of Code, Azure credits, nexB and others generous sponsors!

  

Project mention: ScanCode: Scan license and packages, dependencies and origin information | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-08-11

• ort

  3 1,475 9.9 Kotlin

  A suite of tools to automate software compliance checks.

  

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• go-licenses

  1 765 3.4 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.

  

• fossology

  2 750 8.9 PHP

  FOSSology is an open source license compliance software system and toolkit. As a toolkit you can run license, copyright and export control scans from the command line. As a system, a database and web ui are provided to give you a compliance workflow. License, copyright and export scanners are tools used in the workflow.

  

• cargo-about

  3 480 0.0 Rust

  📜 Cargo plugin to generate list of all licenses for a crate 🦀

  

• sandworm-audit

  6 463 8.4 JavaScript

  Security & License Compliance For Your App's Dependencies 🪱

  

Project mention: Anyone else’s project use so many deprecated packages | /r/node | 2023-06-08

use https://github.com/sandworm-hq/sandworm-audit. if u run it for your app the deprecated libraries will show up in the list of issues found (contributor)

• pip-licenses

  1 283 6.9 Python

  Dump the license list of packages installed with pip.

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• cryptolens-python

  2 176 5.9 Python

  Cryptolens Client API for Python

  

• wp-packages-update-server

  2 137 9.5 PHP

  WP Packages Update Server - Run Your Own Update Server for Plugins and Themes

• hawkeye

  3 69 9.1 Rust

  Simple license header checker and formatter, in multiple distribution forms. (by korandoru)

  

Project mention: Enjoyed Open-Source Collaboration | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-26

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  1 project | /r/devops | 16 Jun 2021
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• A note from our sponsor - InfluxDB
  www.influxdata.com | 30 Apr 2024

  Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality. Learn more →

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