licenses

licenses uses go list tool over a Go workspace to collect the dependencies of a package or command, detect their license if any and match them against well-known templates. Require Golang 1.16 or above to build this project such supports Go Modules.

Inspired by https://github.com/pmezard/licenses.

Installation

$ go install github.com/avence12/licenses@latest

Quick Start

• Show all licenses of github.com/spf13/cobra and its dependencies

# download source code and get to the download folder
$ go get -u -d github.com/spf13/cobra
$ cd $GOPATH/pkg/mod/github.com/spf13/cobra*

# check licenses
$ licenses github.com/spf13/cobra

github.com/inconshreveable/mousetrap  Apache License 2.0
github.com/spf13/cobra                Apache License 2.0 (95%)
github.com/spf13/pflag                BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License (96%)

• Unmatched license words can be displayed with:

$ licenses -w github.com/spf13/pflag
github.com/spf13/pflag  BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License (96%)
                        +words: google, inc, owner
                        -words: all, rights, reserved, project, holder