licensee/licensed

Health v2 · maintenance only

Adoption not part of the score

1043 stars · 136 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Licensed is a Ruby gem and CLI tool that caches the licenses of a project's dependencies and verifies their status against configured rules. It supports enumerating dependencies from many languages and package managers to help with open-source license compliance.

Use cases

• cache licenses of all project dependencies
• verify dependency licenses comply with allowed license list
• generate a license report for an application
• check for disallowed licenses in dependencies before release
• audit open source license compliance in CI

When to choose

• you have a Ruby project or can run Ruby and want automated license checking
• you need to cache and re-verify dependency licenses across many package managers
• you want a lightweight CLI license checker rather than a full compliance suite

When to avoid

• you need a complete open-source license compliance solution - the project explicitly disclaims this
• you need a self-contained executable for non-Ruby environments - support was removed in v4
• you need actively developed features - the project is in low maintenance mode with security fixes only

Facets

cli-tool · maturity maintenance

security developer-tools cli dependency-audit developer-tools version-control legal ruby cli license-compliance license-caching ruby-gem dependency-licenses open-source-licensing automation macos linux

Member repositories

For agents

markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="licensee/licensed")