[robbya]

Agreed. I found this project helpful for automating dependency checks: https://github.com/pivotal/LicenseFinder

I actually played around with turning it into a GitHub action for further usability improvement, although it needs more work: https://github.com/ralexander-phi/license_approval

[jsjohnst]

Pivotal Lab’s license finder used to be my go to recommendation (and still is if “free” is an absolute requirement), but if a company takes license management seriously, I’d recommend checking out FOSSA[0] instead. It’s significantly better and fairly reasonably priced.

[0] https://fossa.com/