Tools for managing licenses of dependencies

Victor Denisov

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Apr 11, 2020, 4:03:18 PM4/11/20

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Hi,

Are there any tools that would allow to manage licenses of my go modules?

I would like to be able to specify what licenses of my dependencies are allowed.

Are there any plans to add something like this to standard go tools?

Thanks,

Victor.

Davor Kapša

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Apr 12, 2020, 4:29:07 AM4/12/20

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Maybe this can help: https://github.com/mitchellh/golicense

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Charith Ellawala

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Apr 13, 2020, 5:54:21 AM4/13/20

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GitHub's licensed tool is written in Ruby but supports Go: https://github.com/github/licensed/blob/master/docs/sources/go.md. Another option is https://github.com/frapposelli/wwhrd.

Go tooling is designed with programmatic use in mind so you could also easily roll your own if the existing tools don't quite match your requirements.

Michał Matczuk

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Apr 14, 2020, 5:22:06 AM4/14/20

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I'm using https://github.com/src-d/go-license-detector with some bash scripting around it to list the modules.

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