Licensing
An index and topic collection covering software licensing APIs across two intersecting domains: open-source license metadata and code-license detection (SPDX, OSI license list, ChooseALicense, FOSSology, ScanCode, ClearlyDefined, the GitHub License API, and Software Composition Analysis tooling from Snyk, Sonatype, Synopsys Black Duck, JFrog, Veracode, and Anchore) and commercial software licensing, entitlement, and activation APIs (Amazon License Manager, Flexera FlexNet Operations, Cryptlex, Keygen, LicenseSpring, Zentitle by Nalpeiron, Sentinel by Thales, Reprise, OpenLM, and SaaS license management platforms such as Snow Software, SoftwareOne, Trelica, CloudEagle.ai, Sastrify, Spendflo, CloudNuro, Cleanshelf, Corma, Certero, and Binadox). The collection brings together the providers that publish, govern, detect, scan, attribute, activate, meter, and reclaim software licenses across open-source compliance pipelines and commercial entitlement systems.
Index entry only — little beyond a description and a link, and nothing machine-readable enough for an agent to act on without a human reading the site first.
API Evangelist profiles Licensing the way a machine reads it — 40 machine-readable artifacts, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Licensing scores 9.5/100 (minimal), with a separate agent-readiness read of 0/100 (human only). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.
Kin Score
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How we profile Licensing
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Licensing. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
Features 8
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
Open Source License Metadata
Authoritative catalogs and identifiers for open-source licenses, including the SPDX License List, OSI-approved licenses, and ChooseALicense.com, exposed via APIs so tools can re...
Source Code License Detection
Scanners such as ScanCode, FOSSology, and ClearlyDefined inspect source trees, package manifests, and binary artifacts to detect declared and inferred licenses across millions o...
Software Composition Analysis
SCA platforms like Snyk, Sonatype, Synopsys Black Duck, JFrog Xray, Veracode SCA, and Anchore inventory open-source dependencies, attribute licenses to each component, and flag ...
SBOM and License Attribution
Software Bill of Materials tooling generates SPDX or CycloneDX documents that include per-component license declarations, enabling downstream attribution, NOTICE file generation...
Commercial License Activation and Entitlement
Entitlement platforms such as Cryptlex, Keygen, LicenseSpring, Zentitle by Nalpeiron, Sentinel by Thales, Reprise, and Flexera FlexNet Operations issue, activate, validate, and ...
License Metering and Floating Licenses
OpenLM, FlexNet, and Reprise track concurrent usage of floating and named-user licenses for engineering and design software, exposing utilization, denial, and check-out events t...
SaaS License Management
SaaS management platforms like Snow Software, SoftwareOne, Trelica, CloudEagle.ai, Sastrify, Spendflo, CloudNuro, Cleanshelf, Corma, Certero, and Binadox discover SaaS subscript...
Marketplace Entitlement and Co-Sell
Cloud marketplace and metering APIs from Amazon License Manager and Suger let ISVs grant, meter, and revoke buyer entitlements purchased through AWS, Azure, and GCP marketplaces.
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Semantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Licensing Context
JSON-LDJSON Schema 2
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
LicenseEntitlement
JSON SCHEMAOSSLicense
JSON SCHEMAJSON Structure 2
JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Licensing License Entitlement Structure
JSON STRUCTURELicensing Oss License Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExamples 2
Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
Use Cases 8
What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.
What developers build with this provider.
Open Source License Compliance
Engineering and legal teams scan repositories and build artifacts with FOSSology, ScanCode, Snyk, or Synopsys Black Duck to attribute licenses to every dependency and prove comp...
SBOM Generation for Regulated Industries
Vendors generate SPDX or CycloneDX SBOMs that embed license declarations to satisfy U.S. Executive Order 14028, the EU Cyber Resilience Act, and medical-device, automotive, and ...
Commercial License Activation
ISVs ship desktop and embedded software that calls Cryptlex, Keygen, LicenseSpring, or FlexNet APIs at startup to activate, validate, and periodically re-check license entitleme...
Floating License Pools for Engineering Tools
CAD, EDA, and scientific computing teams meter concurrent usage of expensive seats through OpenLM, FlexNet, and Reprise license servers, exposing real-time utilization through A...
SaaS Spend and License Optimization
IT and finance teams use SaaS management platforms to discover shadow SaaS, reconcile seats against active users, and reclaim or right-size licenses to cut software spend.
Cloud Marketplace Entitlement Provisioning
ISVs listed on AWS, Azure, and GCP marketplaces use Amazon License Manager and Suger to grant access to customers who purchase through the marketplace and to meter consumption-b...
Repository License Surfacing
Code hosts like GitHub expose detected license metadata via the GitHub License API so downstream tooling can resolve a project's license without re-scanning source.
License Policy Enforcement in CI
SCA gates in CI block builds that introduce dependencies under restricted licenses (AGPL, SSPL) using policies defined in Snyk, Sonatype, Synopsys, JFrog Xray, or Anchore.
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Integrations 17
Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.
Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.
SPDX
The SPDX License List and SBOM specification from the Linux Foundation, providing canonical identifiers and machine-readable license metadata.
FOSSology
Open-source license compliance scanner from the Linux Foundation that detects licenses, copyrights, and obligations across source trees.
ScanCode Toolkit
Open-source license, copyright, and package detection toolkit used as the core engine in ClearlyDefined and many SCA platforms.
ClearlyDefined
Open Source Initiative project that aggregates curated license and copyright data for open-source components and exposes it via API.
Snyk
Developer-first security and SCA platform that inventories open-source dependencies and attributes licenses, flagging policy violations in pull requests.
Synopsys Black Duck
Enterprise SCA platform for open-source license compliance, vulnerability management, and policy enforcement across software supply chains.
Sonatype Lifecycle
SCA and policy engine from Sonatype enforcing license and security policies against open-source components in repositories and build pipelines.
Flexera FlexNet Operations
Commercial license fulfillment and entitlement platform used by ISVs to issue, deliver, and manage software licenses for on-premises and embedded software.
Keygen
Developer-focused commercial software licensing and distribution API offering activation, validation, and entitlement for desktop, embedded, and IoT software.
Cryptlex
Cloud-based commercial software licensing API for activation, offline licensing, floating licenses, and machine fingerprinting.
LicenseSpring
Software licensing platform for ISVs providing online and offline activation, license servers, and entitlement management.
Zentitle by Nalpeiron
Cloud-based software monetization and entitlement platform issuing perpetual, subscription, and consumption-based licenses.
Sentinel by Thales
Enterprise-grade software licensing and entitlement platform widely used in industrial, medical, and embedded software.
OpenLM
License usage monitoring and reporting platform for floating engineering and CAD licenses across FlexNet, Reprise, DSLS, and other license servers.
Amazon License Manager
AWS service for managing software licenses from vendors such as Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, and IBM across AWS and on-premises infrastructure.
Snow Software
IT asset and SaaS management platform (now part of Flexera) providing visibility into software entitlements and consumption.
GitHub License API
GitHub REST API endpoints that return the detected SPDX license for a repository and serve canonical license texts for choosing a license.
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Resources
Every other property we hold for Licensing — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 1
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
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