Catalog Your Open Source Software Usage Using License Finder

Andrew Courter
Level Up Coding
Published in
4 min readDec 15, 2022

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Need to figure out exactly what Open Source licenses your software depends on? I recently found a great tool that you can use locally AND in your CI/CD workflows to make sure you don’t use bad licenses.

Photo by Dimitri Karastelev on Unsplash

https://github.com/pivotal/LicenseFinder

Probably no surprise that this app is called “License Finder” which is really what it does…

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