I have a similar tool in form of a Gradle plugin: https://github.com/vlsi/vlsi-release-plugins/blob/45865c3186a7ecc0d30b1f88c2f31160b5e1b13a/plugins/license-gather-plugin/README.md
It searches for LICENSE-like files in dependencies, checks if the license is A-B-X compatible, and generates the final license file (with all the LICENSE-like files from the dependencies). I've created it for Apache JMeter and Apache Calcite: https://github.com/apache/jmeter/blob/b73f69074f8b3b5d71767ab0fedb52f16a1e55d6/src/licenses/build.gradle.kts https://github.com/apache/calcite/blob/b9c2099ea92a575084b55a206efc5dd341c0df62/release/build.gradle.kts#L101-L121 >From my experience, it is important to be able to "override the detected license" as many dependencies do not properly declare the actual license, and sometimes dependencies fail to include license texts in their release artifacts. Vladimir
