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### 📜 Repository licenses
> ⚠️ This is **NOT** legal advice, use at your own risk
> 🔣 On web instances, this plugin is an extra feature and must be enabled globally in `settings.json`
> 💣 Note that this plugin allows raw commands injection and is **NOT** advised to be enabled on them
> This could result in compromised server!
The *licenses* plugin lets you display license informations like permissions, limitations and conditions along with additional metrics about dependencies.
<table>
<td align="center">
<img src="https://github.com/lowlighter/lowlighter/blob/master/metrics.plugin.licenses.svg">
<details><summary>With licenses ratio</summary>
<img src="https://github.com/lowlighter/lowlighter/blob/master/metrics.plugin.licenses.ratio.svg">
</details>
<img width="900" height="1" alt="">
</td>
</table>
Project must be setup with dependencies using `plugin_licenses_setup` option (for example, `npm ci` for a NodeJS project).
Dependencies will be analyzed with [github/licensed](https://github.com/github/licensed) and compared against GitHub known licenses.
#### Examples workflows
[➡️ Available options for this plugin](metadata.yml)
```yaml
- uses: lowlighter/metrics@latest
with:
# ... other options
template: repository
user: repository-owner
repo: repository-name
plugin_licenses: yes
plugin_licenses_setup: npm ci # Command to setup target repository
plugin_licenses_ratio: yes # Display used licenses ratio
plugin_licenses_legal: yes # Display permissions, limitations and conditions
```