licensee

Changed

• The minimum-supported Gradle version is now (tested as) 8.12. What was it before? Entirely unspecified!

New

• Support overriding artifacts.json report path bundled into your Android APK (under assets/ path).

  licensee {
    bundleAndroidAsset = true
    androidAssetReportPath = "example/licenses.json"
  }
  

• Update SPDX database to version 3.27 (2025-07-01).

Changed

• In-development snapshots...

New

• DSL now has a type-safe version of allow which accepts a SpdxId constant.

  licensee {
    allow(SpdxId.Apache_20)
  }
  

• The artifacts.json report can now be automatically bundled into your Android APK (at app/cash/licensee/artifacts.json path).

  licensee {
    bundleAndroidAs...
  

Changed

• Update SPDX database to version 3.25 (2024-08-19).
• Add fallback URL for popular MIT variant.

New

• LicenseeTask exposes jsonOutput and validationOutput properties which are providers of the generated file that you can use to copy elsewhere or bundle into binaries.

Changed

• Invalid SPDX identifiers passed to allow will now throw an exception.
• Update SPDX database to version 3.23 (2024-02-08).