What is it?
licenses uses go list tool over a Go workspace to collect the dependencies
of a package or command, detect their license if any and match them against
well-known templates.
$ licenses github.com/blevesearch/bleve
github.com/blevesearch/bleve Apache License 2.0
github.com/blevesearch/go-porterstemmer MIT License (93%)
github.com/blevesearch/segment Apache License 2.0
github.com/boltdb/bolt MIT License (97%)
github.com/golang/protobuf/proto BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License (91%)
github.com/steveyen/gtreap MIT License (96%)
vendor/golang.org/x/net/http2/hpack ?
Unmatched license words can be displayed with:
$ licenses -w github.com/steveyen/gtreap
github.com/steveyen/gtreap MIT License (98%)
-words: mit, license
Where does it come from?
Both the code and reference data were directly ported from: