ScanCode LicenseDB: is a large free and open database of software licenses, in particular open-source software licenses, with over 2300 curated licenses texts and their metadata.
LicenseDB is built from the ScanCode Toolkit license dataset. ScanCode Toolkit is a leading open source code scanner and license detection engine.
LicenseDB is an essential reference license resource for license compliance and SBOMs. LicenseDB includes all the SPDX and OSI licenses together with an extended curated collection of other licenses and license metadata. These licenses are carefully reviewed and curated and continuously updated by an open community of contributors.
LicenseDB is available as a web site at: https://scancode-licensedb.aboutcode.org/ You can search the licenses by name, key and other attributes. The web site is updated daily by a GitHub action with updates from scancode-toolkit develop.
LicenseDB is also available as a JSON or YAML API and a git repository making it easy to reuse and integrate in tools that need a database of reference software licenses.
- Get the code at: https://github.com/aboutcode-org/scancode-licensedb