Comparison with other tools

Capability	license-audit	ScanCode	pip-licenses	liccheck
License detection from package metadata	Yes	No (file-level)	Yes	Yes
File-level license scanning	No	Yes	No	No
Pairwise compatibility analysis (OSADL)	Yes	No	No	No
Outbound license recommendation	Yes	No	No	No
Transitive dependency tree with parents	Yes	N/A	No	No
Dual-license resolution (OR expressions)	Yes (picks most permissive)	N/A	No	No
CI policy gating with exit codes	Yes	Via scripting	Via flags	Yes
Compliance report generation	Markdown, JSON, notices	JSON, HTML, CSV, SPDX	CSV, JSON, Markdown	No
Allow/deny lists	Yes	Via scripting	No	Yes
Dependency group filtering	Via provisioning	N/A	No	No
Language support	Python	Any	Python	Python
pyproject.toml configuration	Yes	No	No	Yes
Audits any installed environment (uv, Poetry, pip)	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
PEP 639 License-Expression	Yes	No	No	No

license-audit flags dependency conflicts and provides licensing recommendations. If you need file-level scanning across a multi-language codebase, use ScanCode.