License compliance is one of the most quietly expensive problems in software. A single AGPL dependency pulled into a commercial product can force a full open-source disclosure. Most teams discover this at M&A due diligence, not during development.
An open source license checker scans every dependency in your project — direct and transitive — and flags conflicts based on your project's own license. It distinguishes between permissive licenses (MIT, Apache 2.0, BSD), weak copyleft (LGPL, MPL), and strong copyleft (GPL, AGPL), and surfaces combinations that create incompatibilities.
The AI code layer adds a new wrinkle: AI-generated code may reproduce training data fragments with their original license terms. March 2026 Supreme Court rulings confirmed that pure AI-generated code lacks copyright protection — but it can still infringe on code it was trained on. GitIntel tracks which portions of your codebase are AI-generated, so license scans can account for that provenance question when it matters.
Run `gitintel licenses` in any project directory to get a dependency tree annotated with license types, conflict warnings, and remediation suggestions.