# licensee/licensed

A Ruby gem to cache and verify the licenses of dependencies

Repository: https://github.com/licensee/licensed
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/licensed
Language: Ruby
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: license-management, dependencies, licensing, open-source-licensing
Last push: 2026-08-09T18:35:54+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 87/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 96, release rhythm 69, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3134, "days_push": 24, "days_rel": 127, "gap_med": 61.5, "n_releases_24m": 7}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1043, forks 136 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:21.064487+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: security, developer-tools, cli, dependency-audit
- domain: developer-tools, version-control, legal
- platform: ruby, cli
- tags: license-compliance, license-caching, ruby-gem, dependency-licenses, open-source-licensing, automation, macos, linux

## Member repositories
- licensee/licensed (main) score 87

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:21.064487+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:02:30.649673+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/licensee/licensed (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:21.064487+00:00, sha 5256d6cc45b2)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.