licrep

licrep

Report and embed the licenses of your go dependencies.

The problem

The common Open Source licenses have language which requires the license and copyright notice be included in all copies of the software.

In MIT license

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.

In BSD license

* Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,
  this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation
  and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

Go software can be distributed as a single binary and this tool is for embedding the licenses to that binary.

Installation

$ go get github.com/kopoli/licrep

Usage

Display the summary of the dependencies of your go package by running:

$ licrep -s

Embed the licenses as a data structure to your program by adding the following comment:

//go:generate licrep -o licenses.go

This will create a type called License and a function GetLicenses, which returns []License, error.

See all options by running:

$ licrep --help

For a complete example see _example/example.go.

License

MIT license