A task and GitHub Actions workflow are provided here for checking the license types of Go project dependencies.

On every push and pull request that affects relevant files, the CI workflow will check:

- If the dependency licenses cache is up to date
- If any of the project's dependencies have an unapproved license type.

Approval can be based on:

- Universally allowed license type
- Individual dependency

The `.licenses` folder contains a cache of license metadata for all the project's Go dependencies. This serves two purposes:

- Allow the Licensed dependency license checker tool to only check licenses when a dependency is added or updated
- Allow the maintainer to manually define license metadata when the licensee tool is unable to automatically detect it

The "Licensed" dependency license checker tool uses the licensee tool to automatically determine the license type based
on metadata provided by the dependency author. This must be in a standardized format without any modifications. In cases
where that wasn't done, it is necessary to determine the license type and update the dependency license metadata cache in
the `.licenses` folder manually.

The Licensed tool will check this data whenever the dependency version is updated to make sure the license hasn't changed.