choosealicense-data
reference corpus · status live · domain LAW (Law and regulation) · lane A · refresh pinned · tags GLOBAL · LICENSING · LICENSE-METADATA · SPDX · OPEN-SOURCE · COMPLIANCE
What an agent uses it for
An agent building a license picker or classifying a project's license queries this for structured per-license metadata (permissions/conditions/limitations) and the chooser decision rules behind choosealicense.com.
curl -fsSLO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xerj-org/xerj/corpus-hub/tools/xerj-code/hub/choosealicense-data.jsonxerj corpus add --from ./choosealicense-data.jsonxerj corpus index choosealicense-data then xerj code choosealicense-data "your question"Needs the xerj CLI and a local node running; the copy prompt covers both, checks each step, and shows how to stop only the node you started. No shell: the MCP tool xerj_code_search with corpus: "choosealicense-data", once the corpus is indexed on the node.
Sources and pins
| source | pin | licence | size | review note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| choosealicense.com | f717b235f404 | MIT | 1.1 MB / 180 files | licence host-verified (ok-spdx): MIT |
1.1 MB across 180 files. Added 2026-10-13.
Rights
MIT. Redistribution permitted with attribution per the licence review. The review block records a human opening each licence file at the pin. Detector output is a hint, never the verdict.
Retrieval spot-check (G7)
Not yet spot-checked. Queries are pre-registered in the registry before grading.