CLI for printing license information of rust cargo projects to the terminal.

Usage: flicense.exe [OPTIONS] [MANIFEST_DIR_PATH]

Arguments:
  [MANIFEST_DIR_PATH]  Optional path to manifest dir (where Cargo.toml and Cargo.lock are). Defaults to current dir

Options:
  -y, --yaml               Output as yaml
  -j, --json               Output as json
  -s, --short              Outputs only a short overview
  -o, --omit-license-text  Omits outputing license text
  -l, --license            Outputs license information regarding this software and it's dependencies
  -h, --help               Print help
  -V, --version            Print version

Installation

From Source

cargo install flicense

Scoop (Windows)

scoop bucket add stupid-bucket https://github.com/WyvernIXTL/stupid-bucket
scoop install stupid-bucket/flicense

Examples:

Without Any Flag

flicense.exe ..\license-fetcher\`
================================================================================

Package:     license-fetcher 0.6.2
Description: Fetch licenses of dependencies at build time and embed them into your program.
Authors:     - Adam McKellar <dev@mckellar.eu>
Repository:  https://github.com/WyvernIXTL/license-fetcher
SPDX Ident:  BSL-1.0

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Copyright Adam McKellar 2024

Boost Software License - Version 1.0 - August 17th, 2003

...

YAML Without License Text

flicense.exe .\license-fetcher\ -o -y`
- name: license-fetcher
  version: '0.6.2'
  authors:
  - Adam McKellar <dev@mckellar.eu>
  description: Fetch licenses of dependencies at build time and embed them into your program.
  homepage: null
  repository: https://github.com/WyvernIXTL/license-fetcher
  license_identifier: BSL-1.0
  license_text: null

...

Short License Overview

flicense.exe .\license-fetcher\ -s
MIT OR Zlib OR Apache-2.0: miniz_oxide
MIT: bincode, bincode_derive, virtue
0BSD OR MIT OR Apache-2.0: adler2
BSL-1.0: license-fetcher