go-generate-acknowledgements

Generates acknowledgement text from a go.mod file.

This tool parses the given go.mod files and uses github.com/google/licenseclassifier to identify the license for each module, then output the text to the standard output, which you can capture.

Installation

go install github.com/bugfender/go-generate-acknowledgements@latest

Usage

You can generate an acknowledgements file for your project this:

go-generate-acknowledgements > open-source-licenses.txt

Configuration

You can provide one or multiple go.mod files as arguments, like this:

go-generate-acknowledgements project-a/go.mod project-b/go.mod

You can also provide a configuration file. By default, the file go-generate-acknowledgements.yaml is read (you can also prefix it with a ., or use the yml or json extensions). You can provide a configuration file as argument, like this:

go-generate-acknowledgements -config your-config.yaml

Example configuration:

# by default, no licenses are allowed (you can run go-generate-acknowledgements to discover the licenses you use and approve them)
allowedlicenses:
  - Apache-2.0
  - MIT
# you can specify the go.mod files to parse (by default "go.mod")
gomodfiles:
  - module-a/go.mod
  - module-b/go.mod
# you can override licenses for specific modules if the license classifier can not identify them correctly
licenseoverrides:
  - moduleversion:
      path: github.com/dchest/uniuri
      version: v1.2.0
    spdx: CC0-1.0

Support

This tool is open source and free to use (see LICENSE). We do not provide support.

We may implement new features, but we will likely only implement features that we need. If you'd like to contribute, check CONTRIBUTING.md.