LicenseLens

LicenseLens is a web app (with optional GitHub/GitLab app) that continuously scans your repositories and build artifacts to detect open-source license and notice obligations you’re about to violate. It generates an always-up-to-date NOTICE file, flags copyleft triggers (e.g., GPL/AGPL) based on how the code is used, and creates a compliance “paper trail” for audits. This is not a magical legal oracle: it won’t replace counsel, and it can’t perfectly infer every edge case. But it can drastically reduce the common, expensive mistakes teams make under deadline pressure—missing attributions, unknown transitive dependencies, and shipping binaries without required notices. It also helps open-source maintainers by encouraging correct attribution and upstream contribution when required. The MVP focuses on dependency discovery, policy rules, and actionable pull-request comments rather than heavy enterprise GRC bloat.