scancode license data CLI

Scancode includes the license data for all the licenses in detects as scancode-licensedb with the license texts and other reference data like license category, authors, and reference links.

scancode-license-data is a CLI command to provide this license data in a structured format that is API, and this includes:

  • all the license details, without license text, in one JSON/YAML file

  • all the individual licenses, with license text, in JSON/YAML files

  • locally built HTML page with a searchable table of all licenses

  • locally built HTML pages for all individual licenses with its text and details

The data and HTML pages are dumped into a folder specified by the required CLI option --path.

The licensedb is also hosted at https://scancode-licensedb.aboutcode.org/ and is updated daily from the latest added licenses from the scancode develop branch using the scancode-license-data CLI option.

Usage: scancode-license-data [OPTIONS]

Quick Reference

--path DIR

Dump the license data in this directory in the LicenseDB format and exit. Creates the directory if it does not exist. [required]

-h, --help

Show this message and exit.