Commit 31bcfbc0 authored by Nick Gaskill's avatar Nick Gaskill Committed by Russell Dickenson

Clarify unsupported behavior of .NET in License Compliance

parent 3a81e4a7
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> [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/5483) in [GitLab Ultimate](https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/) 11.0.
## Overview
If you are using [GitLab CI/CD](../../../ci/README.md), you can search your project dependencies for their licenses
using License Compliance.
If you're using [GitLab CI/CD](../../../ci/README.md), you can use License Compliance to search your
project's dependencies for their licenses. You can then decide whether to allow or deny the use of
each license. For example, if your application uses an external (open source) library whose license
is incompatible with yours, then you can deny the use of that license.
You can take advantage of License Compliance by either [including the job](#configuration)
in your existing `.gitlab-ci.yml` file or by implicitly using
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![Edit Policy](img/policies_maintainer_edit_v13_2.png)
## Use cases
It helps you find what licenses your project uses in its dependencies, and decide for each of then
whether to allow it or forbid it. For example, your application is using an external (open source)
library whose license is incompatible with yours.
## Supported languages and package managers
The following languages and package managers are supported.
| Language | Package managers | Scan Tool |
|------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------|
| JavaScript | [Bower](https://bower.io/), [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/) |[License Finder](https://github.com/pivotal/LicenseFinder)|
| Go | [Godep](https://github.com/tools/godep), [go mod](https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Modules) |[License Finder](https://github.com/pivotal/LicenseFinder)|
| Java | [Gradle](https://gradle.org/), [Maven](https://maven.apache.org/) |[License Finder](https://github.com/pivotal/LicenseFinder)|
| .NET | [Nuget](https://www.nuget.org/) (.NET Framework is supported via the [mono project](https://www.mono-project.com/). Windows specific dependencies are not supported at this time.) |[License Finder](https://github.com/pivotal/LicenseFinder)|
| Python | [pip](https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/) (Python is supported through [requirements.txt](https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/user_guide/#requirements-files) and [Pipfile.lock](https://github.com/pypa/pipfile#pipfilelock).) |[License Finder](https://github.com/pivotal/LicenseFinder)|
| Ruby | [gem](https://rubygems.org/) |[License Finder](https://github.com/pivotal/LicenseFinder)|
| Objective-C, Swift | [Carthage](https://github.com/Carthage/Carthage) |[License Finder](https://github.com/pivotal/LicenseFinder)|
| Language | Package managers | Notes | Scan Tool |
|------------|------------------|-------|-----------|
| JavaScript | [Bower](https://bower.io/), [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/) | | [License Finder](https://github.com/pivotal/LicenseFinder) |
| Go | [Godep](https://github.com/tools/godep), [go mod](https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Modules) | | [License Finder](https://github.com/pivotal/LicenseFinder) |
| Java | [Gradle](https://gradle.org/), [Maven](https://maven.apache.org/) | | [License Finder](https://github.com/pivotal/LicenseFinder) |
| .NET | [Nuget](https://www.nuget.org/) | The .NET Framework is supported via the [mono project](https://www.mono-project.com/). There are, however, some limitations. The scanner doesn't support Windows-specific dependencies and doesn't report dependencies of your project's listed dependencies. Also, the scanner always marks detected licenses for all dependencies as `unknown`. | [License Finder](https://github.com/pivotal/LicenseFinder) |
| Python | [pip](https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/) | Python is supported through [requirements.txt](https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/user_guide/#requirements-files) and [Pipfile.lock](https://github.com/pypa/pipfile#pipfilelock). | [License Finder](https://github.com/pivotal/LicenseFinder) |
| Ruby | [gem](https://rubygems.org/) | | [License Finder](https://github.com/pivotal/LicenseFinder)|
| Objective-C, Swift | [Carthage](https://github.com/Carthage/Carthage) | | [License Finder](https://github.com/pivotal/LicenseFinder) |
NOTE: **Note:**
Java 8 and Gradle 1.x projects are not supported.
### Experimental support
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