# pivotal/LicenseFinder

Find licenses for your project's dependencies.

Repository: https://github.com/pivotal/LicenseFinder
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/licensefinder
Language: Ruby
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: ruby
Last push: 2024-07-22T21:57:46+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5707, "days_push": 772, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1794, forks 348 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:37.305769+00:00)

## What it is
LicenseFinder is a Ruby CLI tool that scans a project's dependencies via its package manager, detects each package's license, and compares them against a user-defined whitelist to produce an actionable compliance report. It supports many ecosystems (Bundler, pip, npm, Go, Maven, Gradle, and more) and can run as a pre-commit hook or in CI.

## Use cases
- audit licenses of project dependencies
- enforce an approved license whitelist in CI
- generate a license report for legal compliance
- check for GPL dependencies before shipping
- run license checks as a pre-commit hook

## When to choose
- you need automated license compliance checks across multiple language ecosystems
- you want to fail builds when unapproved licenses appear
- you need a permissive-licensed, self-hostable compliance scanner

## When to avoid
- you need SBOM generation with SPDX export and deep vulnerability scanning
- your package manager is unsupported or experimental
- you need actively developed tooling with frequent updates

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: security, developer-tools, ci-cd, dependency-audit
- domain: developer-tools, security, legal
- platform: ruby, cli, cross-platform
- tags: license-compliance, dependency-scanning, license-audit, open-source-compliance, docker

## Member repositories
- pivotal/LicenseFinder (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:37.305769+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 2026-08-30T03:22:55.007659+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/pivotal/LicenseFinder (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:37.305769+00:00, sha 91adaab55331)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.