Python Package License Search

A simple Python application to understand how Python projects are licensed.

Usage

The src/license.py uses the GitHub REST API to lookup the licenses used by Python projects. It works by starting with a seed project to get a list of Python packages to search and looks up their licenses. The license frequencies are reported to standard output.

To run the application:

• Create a .env file, which contains your GitHub access token and username. You can use the .env.template as an example. Note, you can still run the project without authentication, but you may need to increase SLEEP_DURATION to prevent being rate limited.
• With GNU Make, run make all. That will take care of creating the virtual environment and running the src/license.py script.
• Without GNU Make, you'll need to use requirements.txt to create the virtual environment and run the src/license.py script.

Results are cached for convenience; you may need to delete that caching directory. Running make clean takes care of removing the cache directory.

License

This project is distributed under the GNU General Public License. Please see COPYING for more information.