Check License Compliance

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Check License Compliance Free Apache-2.0 licensed open-source GitHub Action github.com · 4 Oct 2026

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Policy enforcement: both
Deployment options: on-premise
Source scan methods: repository

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Purpose: Checks repository dependencies against allowed, forbidden, and warning license policies.
Supported ecosystems: Checks dependencies for Node.js (NPM), Python (PyPI), Maven, and Go.
Dependency lookup: Reads manifest files and retrieves dependency tree information recursively from the deps.dev API, without requiring dependencies to be installed first.
Policy controls: Policies can allow, forbid, or warn on licenses, with configurable behavior for other or unknown licenses.
CI integration: The product is provided as a GitHub Action that can run in GitHub Actions workflows.
Pull request comments: A composite action can post check results as a comment on a pull request.
Reports: Results can be reported as text, Markdown, or JSON, including details about noncompliant dependencies, their installation paths, and licenses.
Configuration: Configuration can be supplied in a YAML file, through action inputs, or both, and supports selecting or excluding dependencies and files.
License matching limit: License expressions using AND or OR are not supported; simple SPDX identifiers, plus-ranges, and exceptions are supported.
Deployment: The GitHub Action runs using a Docker image defined by the repository's Dockerfile.
Open-source license: The project is licensed under Apache-2.0.
Maker: The action identifies its author as Telefónica Innovación Digital.
Organization location: The Telefónica GitHub organization profile lists Spain.
Price from: Free

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github.com/Telefonica/check-license-compliance· checked 4 Oct 2026
github.com/Telefonica/check-license-compliance/blo· checked 4 Oct 2026
github.com/Telefonica· checked 4 Oct 2026