analice

README

analice

About

Get an overview of OSS licenses used in your go project.

Build

go build

Usage

Generate NOTICE file

analice generate notice /path/to/github.com/user/project

Generate debian copyright file.

analice generate copyright /path/to/github.com/user/project

Assumptions

• Root project uses dep as dependency management, Gopkg.lock need to be present in root directory.
• Every dependency is licensed under one license known to this tool.
• All dependencies need to be in the vendor folder including their LICENSE files.

Known limitations

• Skips dependencies without license, either because they don't have one or it is absent in vendor folder.
• Skips dependencies which bury the license file in a non-standard location, e.g. by embedding it in README.
• Sometimes does not work for dependencies with heavy re-formatting of the LICENSE file, e.g. by using markdown, prefixing every line wth "> ", etc. Line breaks and spaces are OK though.
• A quick test showed this tool to work on ~50% of the projects in my GOPATH.