arduino / arduino-language-server

An Arduino Language Server based on Clangd to Arduino code autocompletion
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Add CI workflow to check for unapproved Go dependency licenses #135

Closed per1234 closed 2 years ago

per1234 commented 2 years ago

Please check if the PR fulfills these requirements

What kind of change does this PR introduce?

Infrastructure enhancement

What is the current behavior?

Contributors and maintainers are not provided with any tools to assist them in the complex and esoteric subject of open source licence compliance.

What is the new behavior?

A task and GitHub Actions workflow are provided here for checking the license types of Go project dependencies.

On every push and pull request that affects relevant files, the CI workflow will use Licensed to check:

Approval can be based on:

Other information

The workflow run is currently failing. This is an accurate result which is caused by incompatibility of the Apache 2.0 license of the Arduino Language Server with the license of dependencies used by the project, which underscores the need for the system added here.

Resolution of that non-compliance is out of scope for this PR.