selfphp/composer-license-audit

Automated license audit tool for Composer dependencies with blacklist and CI integration.

1.0.0 2025-06-07 20:06 UTC

Requires

• php: ^8.1
• symfony/console: ^7.3

Requires (Dev)

• phpunit/phpunit: ^11.0

MIT

• Damir Enseleit

• dependency
• php
• composer
• ci
• Audit
• license
• blacklist
• compliance

README

A simple and powerful CLI tool to analyze Composer dependencies for license compliance.
Useful for companies, open-source maintainers, and CI/CD pipelines.

🚀 Features

• 🔍 Parses composer.lock and detects licenses
• ❌ Compares against a blacklist (config/blacklist.json)
• ✅ Supports per-package exceptions (config/allowed-packages.json)
• 📊 CSV and JSON export
• 🧪 CI-friendly: exits with code 1 on violations

📦 Installation

composer require --dev selfphp/composer-license-audit

Or install globally:

composer global require selfphp/composer-license-audit

🔧 Configuration

config/blacklist.json

{
  "forbidden": [
    "AGPL-3.0",
    "GPL-3.0-only",
    "GPL-3.0-or-later",
    "CC-BY-SA-4.0"
  ]
}

config/allowed-packages.json

{
  "exceptions": [
    "legacy/package",
    "acme/unstable-lib"
  ]
}

🧑‍💻 Usage

Basic scan:

vendor/bin/license-audit

With CSV + CI check:

vendor/bin/license-audit \
  --fail-on-blacklist \
  --csv=report/licenses.csv

With custom paths:

vendor/bin/license-audit \
  --lockfile=/custom/path/composer.lock \
  --blacklist=config/blacklist.json

📊 Example Output

Package                        License                   Status
symfony/console                MIT                       OK
some/forbidden-lib             AGPL-3.0                  VIOLATION

✅ Exit Codes

Code	Meaning
0	No violations
1	At least one violation

🧪 CI/CD Integration

GitHub Actions:

- name: Check Composer Licenses
  run: vendor/bin/license-audit --fail-on-blacklist

🧪 CI Integration Examples

Example configuration files for popular CI providers are available in docs/ci/:

• GitHub Actions
• GitLab CI
• Bitbucket Pipelines

👤 Author

Damir Enseleit
GitHub: @selfphp
Website: https://selfphp.de

🤝 Contributing

Found a bug or have a feature request?
Feel free to open an issue or submit a pull request. Contributions are welcome!

📄 License

MIT – use it, fork it, improve it!

Feel free to contribute!