LicenseGatherer

LicenseGatherer provides license information from all transitive NuGet dependencies of your solution.

Limitation

This tool only gathers licenses from projects using the project SDK.

Installation

As global tool

dotnet tool install --global LicenseGatherer

As local tool

dotnet tool install LicenseGatherer

Usage

Usage: LicenseGatherer [options]

Options:
  -p|--path <PATH_TO_PROJECT_OR_SOLUTION>  The path of the project or solution to gather the licenses. A directory can be specified, the value
                                           must end with \, then for a solution in the working directory is searched. (optional)
  -o|--outputpath <OUTPUT_PATH>            The path of the JSON content output. If the no value is specified some information is printed into
                                           the console. (optional)
  -s|--skipdownload                        Skip the download of licenses
  -?|-h|--help                             Show help information

JSON Output

The generated JSON file consists of the following schema:

An array of packages. One package has these properties

Name	Type	Explanation
PackageReference	object	An object containing information of the package
LicenseContent	string	The content of the license
OriginalLicenseLocation	string	The url of the given license.
DownloadedLicenseLocation	string	The corrected url of the license. E.g. It replaces the github url with the raw once.
LicenseExpression	object	The license expression of the package

LicenseExpression

Contains an object of the type NuGet.Packaging.Licenses.NuGetLicense

Name	Type	Explanation
Identifier	string	The identifier according to spdx
Plus	boolean	Signifies whether the plus operator has been specified on this license
IsStandardLicense	boolean	Signifies whether this is a standard license known by the NuGet APIs
Type	integer	0: License, 1: Operator

PackageReference

Name	Type	Explanation
Name	string	The name of the package dependency
ResolvedVersion	object	The runtime version. This value can differ from the version in the configuration

ResolvedVersion

Contains an object of the type NuGet.Versioning.NuGetVersion.

Name	Type	Explanation
Version	string	A System.Version representation of the version without metadata or release labels.
IsLegacyVersion	boolean	True if the NuGetVersion is using legacy behavior.
Revision	integer	Revision version R (x.y.z.R)
IsSemVer2	boolean	Returns true if version is a SemVer 2.0.0 version
OriginalVersion	string	Returns the original, non-normalized version string.
Major	integer	Major version X (X.y.z)
Minor	integer	Minor version Y (x.Y.z)
Patch	integer	Patch version Z (x.y.Z)
ReleaseLabels	array of string	A collection of pre-release labels attached to the version.
Release	string	The full pre-release label for the version.
IsPrerelease	boolean	True if pre-release labels exist for the version.
HasMetadata	boolean	True if metadata exists for the version.
Metadata	string	Build metadata attached to the version.

Contribution

• Create a fork and make a Pull Request
• Submit a bug
• Submit an idea

License

Licensed under MIT