Purpose: Scans Python project dependencies for open-source licenses and analyzes compliance risks based on project type.
Risk analysis: Findings are rated clean, notice, warning, or critical and include plain-English explanations and remediation steps.
Dependency discovery: Reads dependencies from pyproject.toml or requirements.txt and scans installed transitive dependencies by default.
Reports: Generates terminal, Markdown, HTML, and JSON reports, with CI mode and exit codes for build pipelines.
Custom policies: Policy files let organizations allow, deny, or flag licenses for review.
Integrations: Looks up license metadata through the PyPI JSON API and supports optional AI summaries using Claude or OpenAI, which require an API key.
Caching: PyPI lookup results are cached locally for seven days by default.
Limits: The tool relies on declared PyPI metadata rather than scanning license files, supports Python packages only, and does not detect copied code.
License expression support: It handles SPDX OR and AND expressions but not complex nested expressions.
Security reporting: The security policy asks users to report vulnerabilities through GitHub private vulnerability reporting and says not to open a public issue for them.
Support: The project invites bug reports and feature requests through GitHub issues and welcomes pull requests.
Intended audience: The author says the tool is intended to help lawyers and compliance professionals who may not have deep software engineering backgrounds understand what it does and why.
Risk reports: Reports findings as clean, notice, warning, or critical, with plain-English explanations and remediation steps.
Policy rules: A customizable policy engine lets organizations allow, deny, or flag licenses for review.
Price from: Free

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Best Open Source License Compliance Software in 2026#21 of 28

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github.com/admiral-cs/license-comply· checked 7 Oct 2026
github.com/admiral-cs/license-comply/blob/main/SEC· checked 7 Oct 2026
github.com/admiral-cs/license-comply/blob/main/CON· checked 7 Oct 2026
github.com/admiral-cs/license-comply/blob/main/LEG· checked 7 Oct 2026