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Check dependency licenses

Check dependencies licenses for possible problems: missing or prohibited licenses, or other compliance issues

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

CheckDependencyLicenses
Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | Dependency analysis

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Check dependency licenses inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Build dependency tree

Default value:

Selected
Use package search service to find information about the dependency

Default value:

Selected
Check for a homepage url in the package

Default value:

Not selected
Raise inspection problems

Default value:

Not selected

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection CheckDependencyLicenses

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

    Inspection Details

    By default bundled with:

    Qodana for JVM 2025.2,

    Last modified: 18 September 2025