Top 15 License Open-Source Projects

1. LicensePlist

   1 1 2,532 8.0 Swift

   A license list generator of all your dependencies for iOS applications

   

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3. cargo-deny

   2 17 2,439 8.4 Rust

   ❌ Cargo plugin for linting your dependencies 🦀

   

   Project mention: A passing security audit is a timestamp, not a verdict | dev.to | 2026-06-17

   The advisories: RUSTSEC-2026-0176 and RUSTSEC-2026-0177, both against pyo3, both fixed in 0.29.0. The audit tool is cargo-deny, reading the RustSec advisory database. Built on Phantom, the platform I run on, open source at github.com/ghostwright/phantom.

4. license

   3 2 483 0.0

   Prevent oil and gas companies from co-opting your work and extracting more fossil fuels with this software license.

   

5. gradle-license-plugin

   4 3 442 9.1 Groovy

   Gradle plugin that provides a task to generate a HTML license report of your project.

   

6. spdx-spec

   5 4 389 8.8 Python

   The System Package Data Exchange (SPDX) specification in Markdown and HTML formats.

   

7. cc-legal-tools-app

   6 1 218 7.9 Python

   Legal tool (licenses, public domain dedication, etc.) management application for Creative Commons

   

8. Licensy

   7 1 61 0.0 Python

   Discord bot that manages expiration of roles with subscriptions!

   

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10. awesome-copyfarleft

    8 5 62 2.1

    [Mirror] Upstream: https://nest.pijul.com/fabian/awesome-copyfarleft

    

11. CPMLicenses.cmake

    9 2 42 1.7 CMake

    📜 Give credit automatically! A license disclaimer generator for your CPM.cmake dependencies.

    

12. katharos-license

    10 3 18 3.3

    An ethical license designed to prevent impure or destructive use of shared works.

    

13. liz

    11 2 10 4.5 C#

    liz (ˈlɪz) is a tool to extract license-information from your project/solution aimed on a fast and correct process. Whether it's via a dotnet-CLI-Tool, Cake-Addin or Nuke-Addon (by wgnf)

    

14. Licenses Library

    12 0 5 2.6 HTML

    Lightweight Android library which provides most common licenses in formatted and plain text

    

15. OPNL

    13 1 1 0.0

    The Open Innovation Open Source License proposal

    

16. Software-Licenses

    14 1 1 0.0

    Software are always "all open" or "all close". We need the middle thing! Here are the software licenses I make for the Dev Community.

    

17. licenseproof

    15 2 0 1.8 TypeScript

    Free CLI that scans npm and Python lockfiles and resolves the real license of every transitive dependency, including packages with missing or incorrect metadata. Flags conflicts against your own project's license with plain-English explanations. CI-friendly (--fail-on conflict). Zero network calls, zero telemetry — everything runs offline. Paid tier adds an audit-ready HTML/PDF report and SBOM generation; the scanner itself is free forever.

    

    Project mention: ort VS licenseproof - a user suggested alternative | libhunt.com/r/oss-review-toolkit/ort | 2026-07-25

    Free CLI that scans npm and Python lockfiles and resolves the real license of every transitive dependency, including packages with missing or incorrect metadata. Flags conflicts against your own project's license with plain-English explanations. CI-friendly (--fail-on conflict). Zero network calls, zero telemetry — everything runs offline. Paid tier adds an audit-ready HTML/PDF report and SBOM generation; the scanner itself is free forever.

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  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Nov 2023

• This license seeks to put limits on what people are allowed to do with the licensed work. This includes [..] disallowing the work to be incorporated in or used to produce sexually suggestive or explicit content which we believe is mentally, psychologically, and spiritually harmful.

  1 project | /r/programmingcirclejerk | 27 Dec 2022

• Security platform for tracking SOC2 compliance

  1 project | /r/cybersecurity | 22 Nov 2022

• What is SBOM

  1 project | dev.to | 14 Nov 2022

• How-to choose a FOSS license and implement it

  1 project | /r/ada | 7 May 2022

• LicensesDialog/Project_Default.xml ตอนอาจารย์·PSDev/LicensesDialog·GitHub

  1 project | /r/PurpleImperium | 22 Jan 2022
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