google/go-licenses
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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.
3 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 0 stories, 3 comments · first 2021-12-01 · latest 2025-12-26
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…go by what the license says, rather than "community norms." Other companies are more careless. [1] https://github.com/google/go-licenses
comment by skybrian · 2025-12-26 · in Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI -
…should not happen is one thing, this is the reality edit: oh but that lead me to google this neat https://github.com/google/go-licenses
comment by shp0ngle · 2023-12-12 · in LXD now re-licensed and under a CLA -
…using 500 dependencies due to my 3 main libraries? This is also an automated task. For example, https://github.com/google/go-licenses : "go-licenses analyzes the dependency tree of a Go package/binary. It can output a report on the…
comment by throwaway894345 · 2021-12-01 · in This shouldn't have happened: A vulnerability postmortem