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An Elixir mix task that lists all the licenses used by your Mix project dependencies.
https://github.com/unnawut/licensir

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An Elixir mix task that lists all the licenses used by your Mix project dependencies.

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**Notice: This repository is now archived.** Thank you for over 192,000 downloads since December 2017. While I think Elixir is an awesome ecosystem, I no longer have the chance to be developing using Elixir on a regular basis. :'(

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# Licensir

[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/unnawut/licensir.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/unnawut/licensir)
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[![Module Version](https://img.shields.io/hexpm/v/licensir.svg)](https://hex.pm/packages/licensir)
[![Hex Docs](https://img.shields.io/badge/hex-docs-lightgreen.svg)](https://hexdocs.pm/licensir/)
[![Total Download](https://img.shields.io/hexpm/dt/licensir.svg)](https://hex.pm/packages/licensir)
[![License](https://img.shields.io/hexpm/l/licensir.svg)](https://github.com/unnawut/licensir/blob/master/LICENSE.md)
[![Last Updated](https://img.shields.io/github/last-commit/unnawut/licensir.svg)](https://github.com/unnawut/licensir/commits/master)

An Elixir mix task that list the license(s) of all installed packages in your project.

## Installation

The package can be installed by adding `:licensir` to your list of dependencies in `mix.exs`:

```elixir
def deps do
[
{:licensir, "~> 0.7", only: :dev, runtime: false}
]
end
```

This mix task in most cases only needs to be run on a development machine and independent from the runtime applications, hence the `only: dev, runtime: false` options.

#### Install locally

If you do not wish to include this tool as part of your dependencies, you may also install it locally by running:

```elixir
$ mix archive.install hex licensir 0.7.0
```

Now you can access this tool from any path on your local machine that has access to `mix`.

## Usage

Run `mix licenses` to get the list of packages and their licenses:

```shell
$ mix licenses
+---------------------+---------+--------------------------------------------------------+
| Package | Version | License |
+---------------------+---------+--------------------------------------------------------+
| certifi | | BSD |
| earmark | 1.3.2 | Apache 2.0 |
| ex_doc | 0.20.2 | Apache 2.0 |
| excoveralls | | Unsure (found: MIT, Unrecognized license file content) |
| hackney | | Apache 2.0 |
| idna | | Unsure (found: BSD, MIT) |
| jason | | Apache 2.0 |
| makeup | 0.8.0 | Unsure (found: BSD, Unrecognized license file content) |
| makeup_elixir | 0.13.0 | BSD |
| metrics | | BSD |
| mimerl | | MIT |
| nimble_parsec | 0.5.0 | Apache 2.0 |
| ssl_verify_fun | | MIT |
| table_rex | 2.0.0 | MIT |
| unicode_util_compat | | Unsure (found: Apache 2.0, BSD) |
+---------------------+---------+--------------------------------------------------------+
```

Run `mix licenses --csv` to output in csv format:

```csv
Package,Version,License
certifi,,BSD
earmark,1.3.2,Apache 2.0
ex_doc,0.20.2,Apache 2.0
excoveralls,,"Unsure (found: MIT, Unrecognized license file content)"
hackney,,Apache 2.0
idna,,"Unsure (found: BSD, MIT)"
jason,,Apache 2.0
makeup,0.8.0,"Unsure (found: BSD, Unrecognized license file content)"
makeup_elixir,0.13.0,BSD
metrics,,BSD
mimerl,,MIT
nimble_parsec,0.5.0,Apache 2.0
ssl_verify_fun,,MIT
unicode_util_compat,,"Unsure (found: Apache 2.0, BSD)"
```

### Flags
* `--top-level-only` - Only fetch license information from top level dependencies (e.g. packages that are directly listed in your application's `mix.exs`). Excludes transitive dependencies.

## Usage as a library

You may call the function `Licensir.Scanner.scan()` from your Elixir application to get a list of license data per dependency.

```elixir
iex> Licensir.Scanner.scan([])
[
%Licensir.License{
app: :jason,
dep: %Mix.Dep{
app: :jason,
deps: ...
},
file: "Apache 2",
hex_metadata: ["Apache 2.0"],
license: "Apache 2.0",
mix: nil,
name: "jason",
version: nil
},
%Licensir.License{...},
...
]
```

## Copyright and License

Copyright (c) 2017, Unnawut Leepaisalsuwanna.

This library is released under the MIT License. See the [LICENSE.md](./LICENSE.md) file
for further details.

This project contains 3rd party work as follow:

- ASCII table rendering: a [partial copy](https://github.com/unnawut/licensir/tree/master/lib/table_rex) of [djm/table_rex](https://github.com/djm/table_rex).
- CSV rendering: a [partial copy](https://github.com/unnawut/licensir/tree/master/lib/csv) of [beatrichartz/csv](https://github.com/beatrichartz/csv).