Licence Compatibility Check

Check whether software licences are compatible for a given use.

Pay by wallet (x402) license-compatibility-check

Example

Input

{
  "licenses": [
    "MIT"
  ],
  "use_case": "commercial"
}

Answer

{
  "summary": "All 1 licenses are compatible for commercial use.",
  "use_case": "commercial",
  "warnings": [],
  "conflicts": [],
  "compatible": true,
  "license_count": 1,
  "licenses_analyzed": [
    {
      "type": "permissive",
      "input": "MIT",
      "spdx_id": "MIT",
      "osi_approved": true,
      "compatible_with_use_case": true
    }
  ]
}

Inputs

Field	Type	Required	What it is
`licenses`	array	Yes	SPDX license identifiers
`use_case`	string	No	commercial, open-source, saas, internal

Output fields

How reliably each field appears in a successful answer.

Field	Type	Appears
`summary`	string	Always (present in every successful answer)
`use_case`	string	Always (present in every successful answer)
`warnings`	array	Always (present in every successful answer)
`conflicts`	array	Always (present in every successful answer)
`compatible`	boolean	Always (present in every successful answer)
`license_count`	integer	Always (present in every successful answer)
`licenses_analyzed`	—	Always (present in every successful answer)

How to call it

The same tool through each route. MCP clients reach it through Strale’s server at https://api.strale.io/mcp; the call below is what the agent sends.

# Needs an API key. max_price_cents caps what this call may cost.
curl -X POST https://api.strale.io/v1/do \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STRALE_API_KEY" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "capability_slug": "license-compatibility-check",
    "inputs": {
      "licenses": [
        "MIT"
      ],
      "use_case": "commercial"
    },
    "max_price_cents": 5
  }'

{
  "tool": "strale_execute",
  "arguments": {
    "slug": "license-compatibility-check",
    "inputs": {
      "licenses": [
        "MIT"
      ],
      "use_case": "commercial"
    },
    "max_price_cents": 5
  }
}

import { Strale } from "straleio";

const strale = new Strale({ apiKey: process.env.STRALE_API_KEY! });
const result = await strale.do({
  capability_slug: "license-compatibility-check",
  inputs: {
    "licenses": [
      "MIT"
    ],
    "use_case": "commercial"
  },
  max_price_cents: 5,
});

import os
from straleio import Strale, DoRequest

strale = Strale(api_key=os.environ["STRALE_API_KEY"])
result = strale.do(DoRequest(
    capability_slug="license-compatibility-check",
    inputs={
        "licenses": [
            "MIT",
        ],
        "use_case": "commercial",
    },
    max_price_cents=5,
))

# No account. The first request answers 402 with the price in USDC;
# an x402 client pays it from your wallet and repeats the request.
curl -i -X POST https://api.strale.io/x402/v2/license-compatibility-check \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "licenses": [
      "MIT"
    ],
    "use_case": "commercial"
  }'

Limitations

Covers 30+ common licences
Unknown SPDX identifiers are flagged as 'unknown' and treated conservatively.