licenses

licenses

License and third-party notice management.

Responsibility

Embeds and provides access to:

• Melange's own license text
• Third-party dependency licenses and notices

Used by the CLI to display license information and comply with open source license requirements.

Architecture Role

cmd/melange
       │
       └── internal/licenses
               │
               ├── assets/LICENSE
               ├── assets/THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES
               └── third_party/ (vendored license files)

Generation

Third-party notices are generated via go generate:

//go:generate go run github.com/google/go-licenses@v1.6.0 save ...
//go:generate go run gen_notice.go

This scans dependencies and collects their licenses into the embedded assets.

Key Functions

• LicenseText() - Returns Melange's license
• ThirdPartyText() - Returns aggregated third-party notices