1*f578df4fSJingwen Chen# rules_license 2*f578df4fSJingwen Chen 3*f578df4fSJingwen ChenCI: [](https://buildkite.com/bazel/rules-license) 4*f578df4fSJingwen Chen 5*f578df4fSJingwen ChenThis repository contains a set of rules and tools for 6*f578df4fSJingwen Chen- declaring metadata about packages, such as 7*f578df4fSJingwen Chen - the licenses the package is available under 8*f578df4fSJingwen Chen - the canonical package name and version 9*f578df4fSJingwen Chen - copyright information 10*f578df4fSJingwen Chen - ... and more TBD in the future 11*f578df4fSJingwen Chen- gathering those license declarations into artifacts to ship with code 12*f578df4fSJingwen Chen- applying organization specific compliance constriants against the 13*f578df4fSJingwen Chen set of packages used by a target. 14*f578df4fSJingwen Chen- (eventually) producing SBOMs for built artifacts. 15*f578df4fSJingwen Chen 16*f578df4fSJingwen ChenWARNING: The code here is still in active initial development and will churn a lot. 17*f578df4fSJingwen Chen 18*f578df4fSJingwen ChenIf you want to follow along: 19*f578df4fSJingwen Chen- Mailing list: [[email protected]](https://groups.google.com/a/bazel.build/g/bazel-ssc) 20*f578df4fSJingwen Chen- Monthly eng meeting: [calendar link](MjAyMjA4MjJUMTYwMDAwWiBjXzUzcHBwZzFudWthZXRmb3E5NzhxaXViNmxzQGc&tmsrc=c_53pppg1nukaetfoq978qiub6ls%40group.calendar.google.com&scp=ALL) 21*f578df4fSJingwen Chen- [Latest docs](https://bazelbuild.github.io/rules_license/latest.html) 22*f578df4fSJingwen Chen 23*f578df4fSJingwen ChenBackground reading: 24*f578df4fSJingwen ChenThese is for learning about the problem space, and our approach to solutions. Concrete specifications will always appear in checked in code rather than documents. 25*f578df4fSJingwen Chen- [License Checking with Bazel](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uwBuhAoBNrw8tmFs-NxlssI6VRolidGYdYqagLqHWt8/edit#). 26*f578df4fSJingwen Chen- [OSS Licenses and Bazel Dependency Management](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oY53dQ0pOPEbEvIvQ3TvHcFKClkimlF9AtN89EPiVJU/edit#) 27*f578df4fSJingwen Chen- [Adding OSS license declarations to Bazel](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XszGbpMYNHk_FGRxKJ9IXW10KxMPdQpF5wWbZFpA4C8/edit#heading=h.5mcn15i0e1ch) 28
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