Find licenses in use in third-party dependencies

org.openrewrite.java.dependencies.DependencyLicenseCheck

Locates and reports on all licenses in use.

Recipe source

GitHub, Issue Tracker, Maven Central

• groupId: org.openrewrite.recipe

• artifactId: rewrite-java-dependencies

• version: 1.7.0

Options

Type	Name	Description	Example
String	scope	Match dependencies with the specified scope Valid options: compile, test, runtime, provided	compile
Boolean	addMarkers	Optional. Report each license transitively used by a dependency in search results.

Data Tables (Only available on the Moderne platform)

License report

Contains a license report of third-party dependencies.

Column Name	Description
Group	The first part of a dependency coordinate com.google.guava:guava:VERSION.
Artifact	The second part of a dependency coordinate com.google.guava:guava:VERSION.
Version	The resolved version.
License name	The actual name of the license as written in the third-party dependency.
License type	The license in use, based on the category of license inferred from the name.

Usage

This recipe has required configuration parameters. Recipes with required configuration parameters cannot be activated directly. To activate this recipe you must create a new recipe which fills in the required parameters. In your rewrite.yml create a new recipe with a unique name. For example: com.yourorg.DependencyLicenseCheckExample. Here's how you can define and customize such a recipe within your rewrite.yml:

rewrite.yml

---
type: specs.openrewrite.org/v1beta/recipe
name: com.yourorg.DependencyLicenseCheckExample
displayName: Find licenses in use in third-party dependencies example
recipeList:
  - org.openrewrite.java.dependencies.DependencyLicenseCheck:
      scope: compile

Now that com.yourorg.DependencyLicenseCheckExample has been defined activate it and take a dependency on org.openrewrite.recipe:rewrite-java-dependencies:1.7.0 in your build file:

Gradle

1. Add the following to your build.gradle file:

build.gradle

plugins {
    id("org.openrewrite.rewrite") version("6.12.0")
}

rewrite {
    activeRecipe("com.yourorg.DependencyLicenseCheckExample")
}

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}

dependencies {
    rewrite("org.openrewrite.recipe:rewrite-java-dependencies:1.7.0")
}

2. Run gradle rewriteRun to run the recipe.

Maven

1. Add the following to your pom.xml file:

pom.xml

<project>
  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.openrewrite.maven</groupId>
        <artifactId>rewrite-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>5.29.0</version>
        <configuration>
          <activeRecipes>
            <recipe>com.yourorg.DependencyLicenseCheckExample</recipe>
          </activeRecipes>
        </configuration>
        <dependencies>
          <dependency>
            <groupId>org.openrewrite.recipe</groupId>
            <artifactId>rewrite-java-dependencies</artifactId>
            <version>1.7.0</version>
          </dependency>
        </dependencies>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
</project>

2. Run mvn rewrite:run to run the recipe.

Moderne CLI

You will need to have configured the Moderne CLI on your machine before you can run the following command.

shell

mod run . --recipe DependencyLicenseCheckExample

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