go-license-discovery

go-license-discovery

The license discovery is a library and set of tools that can analyze license text to determine what type of license it contains. It searches for license texts in a file and compares them to an archive of known licenses

This library encapsulate logic from 2 best licenses detection libraries :

• License Classifier : https://github.com/google/licenseclassifier
• go-license-detector : https://github.com/src-d/go-license-detector

In Addition this library uses :

• checksum based cache to have better performance detection of licenses which already been met
• analyzed pom file to detect licenses which presented in the pom as a comment

Example :

• Copy licenses.db file:

copy licenses.db (located under matcher/licenses/licenses.db) file to <licenses folder>

• Init license matcher:

matcher.InitLicenseMatcher(<licenses folder>)

• Match licenses txt file to a known spdx licenses.

matcher.MatchLicenseTxt(licenseTxt)

• Read License from pom file comments and match it to a known spdx licenses.

matcher.GetPomCommentLicense(pomFile)