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licenses

Get all commonly used licenses

Lists the most commonly used licenses on GitHub. For more information, see "Licensing a repository ."

get/licenses

Query parameters

featuredboolean

per_pageinteger

The number of results per page (max 100). For more information, see "Using pagination in the REST API."

pageinteger

The page number of the results to fetch. For more information, see "Using pagination in the REST API."

Response

keystring required

namestring required

urlstring uri nullable required

spdx_idstring nullable required

node_idstring required

html_urlstring uri

Example response

[
  {
    "key": "mit",
    "name": "MIT License",
    "url": "https://api.github.com/licenses/mit",
    "spdx_id": "MIT",
    "node_id": "MDc6TGljZW5zZW1pdA=="
  }
]