# Install addlicense

Scan directories recursively to ensure source files have license headers. Version 1.2.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-05-26.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:addlicense
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install addlicense
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#addlicense
```

  Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ad/addlicense/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Package Facts

- **Package key:** brew:addlicense
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Package manager URL:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/addlicense>
- **Version:** 1.2.0
- **Source summary:** Scan directories recursively to ensure source files have license headers
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/google/addlicense>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/google/addlicense>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://github.com/google/addlicense>
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Source archive:** <https://github.com/google/addlicense/archive/refs/tags/v1.2.0.tar.gz>
- **Last updated:** 2026-05-26T23:37:49-04:00
- **Generated:** 2026-06-10T07:18:26+00:00

## Executables

- addlicense (cli)
- addlicense (alias)

## Build Dependencies

- go

## Install Behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Bottle: available on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-06-10
- Package-manager version: 1.2.0
- Package-manager updated: 2026-05-26
- Local data status: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/google/addlicense
- Upstream latest detected: v1.2.0 (current)

## 安全说明

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** addlicense
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 0
- **Head Version:** HEAD
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** head, stable

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - addlicense: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ad/addlicense/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


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