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Find licenses for your project's dependencies.

8 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 1 story, 7 comments · first 2012-11-09 · latest 2024-07-06

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  1. I have good experience with https://github.com/pivotal/LicenseFinder This produces BOM with versions but rather than out of date it focuses on licenses which comes handy during acquisitions due diligence. Supports many languages
    comment by morbicer · 2024-07-06 · in Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?
  2. …my projects [2] wraps LicenceFinder in a GitHub action (Ruby only until I merge a pending PR). [1] https://github.com/pivotal/LicenseFinder [2] https://github.com/ralexander-phi/license_approval
    comment by 8organicbits · 2024-01-25 · in Show HN: Update your libraries using AI
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    Find licenses for your project's dependencies
    story by quantisan · 2021-11-16 · 0 comments
  4. Agreed. I found this project helpful for automating dependency checks: https://github.com/pivotal/LicenseFinder I actually played around with turning it into a GitHub action for further usability improvement, although it needs more work:…
    comment by robbya · 2020-01-06 · in Always Review Your Dependencies, AGPL Edition
  5. …tool in Ruby [0], and GitLab uses license_finder [1]. [0] https://github.com/github/licensed [1] https://github.com/pivotal/LicenseFinder
    comment by Vinnl · 2018-03-21 · in Some software cannot be used at Google
  6. …licenses are represented in a codebase -- and developed License Finder for this kind of auditing: https://github.com/pivotal/LicenseFinder We also use it for Cloud Foundry. It's fairly robust. I work for Pivotal, but not on LF.
    comment by jacques_chester · 2016-07-12 · in Show HN: Dependency CI – Continuous testing for your dependencies
  7. Another great tool to help with this process is Pivotal Labs' LicenseFinder: https://github.com/pivotal/LicenseFinder Disclosure: I work there
    comment by simonholroyd · 2014-06-06 · in I Sold My Startup for $25.5 Million
  8. …with standard license text. In fact, Pivotal Labs has created a tool along these lines for Ruby: https://github.com/pivotal/LicenseFinder , and the Leiningen project tool from Clojure allows for licenses to be specified in a machine…
    comment by jballanc · 2012-11-09 · in Evil, or why Douglas Crockford is harmful to Free Software