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Licence Aggregator Tool

This is an idea for a tool that would aggregate licences from multiple repos into a single license statement. I came up with this after thinking about Mantl issue 858.

The initial design is that there would be a license.yml file in the root of the repository that lists the licenses that need to be included in the project, and a script that generates a LICENSE file based on the configuration.

I'm fishing for other ideas, so please, feel free to contribute!

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I like this idea....just the idea of a license.yml file going in every repo makes a lot of sense.

What would it look like?

component:
  url: http://github.com....
  license_url: http://github.com/xxx/license.md
  license_type: Apache 2.0

Other ideas:

  • scan go import paths to generate a license.yml file automatically.

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sehqlr commented Dec 8, 2015

So, in case anyone is looking at this, I have finished out a very basic prototype of this in my repo https://github.com/sehqlr/license-bureau

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