Package Licenses

List license of NuGet packages in 'packages' folder of a solution. Update: Support .NET Core project. Search packages in global packages folder using PackageReference in project file. Limitation: Cannot resolve version range.

• Infer license from projectUrl and licenseUrl in the package's metadata
• Download license text from GtiHub and spdx.org

List the tab separated values to output window.

Download licese text.

Create licese list Excel file.

Usage

Click 'List Package Licenses' menu in the solution context menu.

Details

In case the metadata's URL is gnu.org, apache.org, opensource.org, creativecommons.org or defined URL in SPDX license list: Infer license and download the license text from spdx.org

In case the metadata's URL is github: Infer license using GitHub API and download the license text from the GitHub project

Option

If GitHub API rate limit exceeded, set user environment variable 'PACKAGE-LICENSES-GITHUB-QUERY' to 'client_id=your_oauth_app_client_id&client_secret=your_oauth_app_client_secret' (Caution: this is insecure temporaly solution)