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Catch incompatible dependency licenses before release
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A free, open-source CLI that checks every dependency license, transitive ones included, against your project's license, in 10 ecosystems. It reads lockfiles and registry metadata, installs nothing, and gives CI a verdict, not a list.
PH · launched Oct 28, 2026 · 80 upvotes (top 2%) · 1 view
Niche: developer command-line tools · 226 launches, 5 in the last 7 days ▼ -67% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Compliance & governance
- Developer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Open Source
- Legal
- Developer Tools
- GitHub
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Could you build this?
Yes The tool parses lockfiles and queries package registry metadata to classify licenses and compare them against the project license. The logic is deterministic and the ecosystems have public metadata, so a solo builder can do it with a CLI and some parsers.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 68 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #2 of 69 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 349 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Drift — Dependency Upgrades · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- UCE — Universal Compatibility Engine · ph · 2026-09-06 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Macventory · ph · 2026-10-25 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- npm Package Inspector · ph · 2026-09-21 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- CLI that helps AI agents avoid vulnerable dependencies · hn · 2026-07-01 · 26 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- CompatLab · ph · 2026-10-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- LegacyFixer · ph · 2026-10-14 · 60 upvotes · similarity 0.38
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