A Kotlin Multiplatform library of open-source license templates, plus an opt-in Gradle plugin that scans your project's dependency graph and generates the license catalog for you — so you never have to hand-type another NOTICE entry.

• Targets: Android, iOS (x64 / arm64 / simulator arm64), JVM, JS, Wasm.
• License (of this library's own code): MIT. See LICENSE.
• Group / artifact: dev.noahtownsend:linkedlicense.
• Using Claude Code? There's a packaged skill that walks through integrating LinkedLicense into your project step by step: .claude/skills/integrate-linkedlicense/SKILL.md.

// build.gradle.kts
dependencies {
    implementation("dev.noahtownsend:linkedlicense:<version>")
}

That alone gets you the License API (§1) for hand-writing entries yourself — no scanning, no build-time tooling, nothing generated. If you also want your dependency graph scanned and a catalog generated automatically, apply the plugin too (§2):

plugins {
    id("dev.noahtownsend.linkedlicense") version "<version>"
}

Then, in code:

// Manual: construct License instances yourself
val licenses = listOf(
    License.MIT(elementLicensed = "Kotlin", author = "JetBrains", year = "2011"),
)

// Or, with the plugin applied: use what generateLicenseCatalog already built for you
val licenses = GeneratedLicenses.all

To show them in a Compose Multiplatform UI with zero custom screen code, add dev.noahtownsend:linkedlicense-compose (§5) and drop in the ready-made component:

LicensesButton(licenses = licenses)

That's a translated "Licenses" row that opens a full-screen, expandable list on tap — the whole feature, one line. See the rest of this README for every configuration knob once you need one.

LinkedLicense is a tool that helps you track third-party license obligations — it is not a legal service, and using it does not by itself guarantee compliance with any license, anywhere. Automated scanning can miss dependencies, misread ambiguous or malformed license metadata, or match against the wrong template; best-guess detection (§2.3) is explicitly heuristic; the built-in license templates are provided for convenience and are not a substitute for reading the actual license governing a given dependency. You, the consumer of this library, remain solely responsible for your project's license compliance — reviewing what this library generates, correcting or overriding anything wrong (§3.1), and making your own legal judgment calls (consulting counsel where appropriate) — the same way you would be responsible for compliance whether or not any tooling was involved. This library and its authors accept no liability for compliance failures, misidentified licenses, or omissions, consistent with the "AS IS", no-warranty terms of the MIT license this project itself is released under.

dev.noahtownsend.linkedlicense.License is an abstract class. A closed, built-in set of subtypes covers the common licenses; you may also subclass it yourself (see §4 Custom licenses in code).

Every License exposes:

abstract class License(
    open val elementLicensed: String,
    open val author: String,
    open val url: String? = null,
    open val kind: Kind = Kind.DEPENDENCY,
    open val notice: String? = null,
) {
    abstract val licenseText: String
    open val copyleftStrength: CopyleftStrength get() = CopyleftStrength.NONE
    val isCopyleft: Boolean get() = copyleftStrength != CopyleftStrength.NONE
    open val requiresAttribution: Boolean get() = true
    open val shortName: String get() = "Custom"

    enum class Kind { DEPENDENCY, ASSET }
    enum class CopyleftStrength { NONE, WEAK, STRONG }
}

copyleftStrength replaces the old plain isCopyleft: Boolean flag with the weak/strong distinction described below — isCopyleft is now a derived, non-overridable convenience (true whenever copyleftStrength != NONE), so existing code checking license.isCopyleft keeps working unchanged; only subclasses that need to declare copyleft status override copyleftStrength instead.

requiresAttribution indicates whether the license requires notice/attribution to be declared or displayed in the consuming software (e.g. in binary distributions or an in-app licenses UI). Most licenses (MIT, Apache 2.0, BSD, GPL, etc.) require attribution (true), while dedicated public-domain or zero-attribution licenses (0BSD, MIT-0, CC0, Unlicense, Public Domain) waive this requirement (false). Consuming software can use this property to filter or distinguish mandatory declarations from optional/no-attribution entries.

notice exposes artifact-level third-party attribution and copyright notices (e.g. extracted from META-INF/NOTICE or NOTICE.txt). This allows satisfying distribution notice obligations within in-app display screens (e.g. in Compose via dev.noahtownsend:linkedlicense-compose) as permitted under Apache-2.0 §4(d). The Gradle plugin automatically populates this field during dependency scanning (stripping trailing duplicate license text boilerplate while retaining genuine third-party attribution), and it can also be explicitly supplied via [overrides] or [assets].

kind distinguishes an actual code dependency (the default) from a bundled non-dependency asset — a dataset, image, font, or similar — that carries its own license/attribution but was never resolved off a Gradle dependency graph. It's a constructor parameter on the base class, not a per-subtype thing: the same License.MIT, say, can represent either an MIT library dependency or an MIT-licensed font depending on how you construct it. Consuming UI (e.g. linkedlicense-compose, §5) can use it to group or label entries separately ("Dependencies" vs. "Data & Assets"). See §3.7 for how the scanning plugin lets you declare these alongside scanned dependencies without hand-merging two lists yourself.

* CreativeCommons variants with NC/ND/SA terms carry redistribution conditions, but none require releasing your own source code the way GPL-family licenses do, so they're not classified as copyleft for the purposes of §3.5.

** Odbl (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0) is a share-alike license for databases, not source code — used for e.g. OpenStreetMap data. Classified the same way as CC BY-SA above, for the same reason: it has redistribution conditions but doesn't require releasing your own software source.

CcVariant is BY | BY_SA | BY_ND | BY_NC | BY_NC_SA | BY_NC_ND. CcVersion is V1_0 | V2_0 | V2_5 | V3_0 | V4_0. OglVersion is V1_0 | V2_0 | V3_0 (the UK Open Government Licence's three published versions). These are closed, known sets, so they're modeled as enums rather than free-form version strings — a typo like "4.O" (letter O) fails to compile instead of silently generating a broken creativecommons.org URL at runtime.

Three built-in types cover different reasons something is in the public domain — don't use them interchangeably: PublicDomain is a voluntary dedication (the rights holder waived them, CC0-style); UsGovernmentPublicDomain is for US federal government works, exempt from copyright by statute (17 U.S.C. § 105); CopyrightExpired is for works whose copyright term has simply run out under applicable law — nobody dedicated or exempted anything, the protection period ended. Copyright terms vary by jurisdiction (commonly life-of-the-author- plus-50-or-70-years, but not universally), so CopyrightExpired takes an optional jurisdiction param to state which jurisdiction's term you're relying on; leave it null if you're asserting the work is public domain more broadly (e.g. clearly pre-1900 with no plausible live copyright anywhere).

copyleftStrength is non-NONE for Gpl2/Gpl3 (STRONG) and Lgpl2_1/Lgpl3/Mpl1/Mpl1_1/Mpl2/Epl1/Epl2/MsRl/Cddl1/Cddl1_1 (WEAK) — anything with reciprocal/share-alike source-disclosure obligations. LGPL, MPL, EPL, MS-RL, and CDDL are weak copyleft (obligations apply per-file/per-library, not to your whole program) versus GPL's strong copyleft (obligations apply to the whole combined work); both default to failing the build under the copyleft guard below, since either can require you to release source you didn't intend to — but the guard lets you configure weak-copyleft handling separately from strong (§3.5).

License.Custom's optional licenseName names the license itself (e.g. "Acme EULA"), distinct from elementLicensed (what's being licensed, e.g. "Acme SDK") — it becomes shortName when provided (falling back to the literal string "Custom" when omitted), so a custom entry can show a real label in UI instead of a generic placeholder.

val licenses = listOf(
    License.MIT(elementLicensed = "Kotlin", author = "JetBrains", year = "2011"),
    License.Apache2(elementLicensed = "Ktor", author = "JetBrains"),
    License.CreativeCommons(
        variant = CcVariant.BY_SA,
        version = CcVersion.V4_0,
        elementLicensed = "Wikimedia Commons Media",
        author = "Wikimedia Contributors",
    ),
)

Applying the plugin does not happen automatically by depending on the library — it's a separate, explicit step:

// build.gradle.kts
plugins {
    id("dev.noahtownsend.linkedlicense") version "<version>"
}

This registers one task per Kotlin source set: generateLicenseCatalog (e.g. generateCommonMainLicenseCatalog). In a Kotlin Multiplatform project, every platform source set (jvmMain, androidMain, iosMain, …) has its own resolvable classpath and gets scanned independently. commonMain isn't itself tied to one platform's dependency graph, so its catalog is the union of every platform target's resolved coordinates — this is deliberately the more expensive, more correct option: a dependency that only exists on one target (e.g. an iOS-only binding) still shows up, rather than being silently missed because some other target happened to be picked as "the" reference classpath. Every fail-fast check (§3.3, §3.5, §3.6) applies to that unioned set.

1. Resolves the source set's runtime/compile classpath transitively — the full dependency graph, not just what you declared directly. License and notice obligations attach to everything you ship, including indirect dependencies.

2. Dedupes by resolved coordinate (group:artifact:version). A coordinate reached by multiple paths in the graph (shared transitive deps, diamond dependencies, or a transitive dep that's also one of your direct dependencies) is processed exactly once and appears exactly once in the output.

3. For each unique coordinate, fetches its POM and reads <licenses><license> entries.

4. Matches the license name/URL against a table of common SPDX identifiers and known name variants (e.g. "The Apache Software License, Version 2.0" → Apache2).

5. Anything that can't be matched, and has no override (§3), fails the build by default — see §3.3. Anything copyleft, and not allow-listed, also fails the build by default — see §3.5.

6. Copies required notices into THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES — see §3.4.

7. Once every dependency is resolved (matched, overridden, or ignored) and no failure was triggered, generates GeneratedLicenses.kt (an object exposing all: List<License>) into build/generated/linkedlicense/<sourceSet>/, registered as an extra Kotlin source directory so it compiles like ordinary code — package-qualified per source set (dev.noahtownsend.linkedlicense.generated.<sourceSet lowercased>, e.g. ...generated. commonmain, ...generated.jvmmain), not just directory-qualified:

   // build/generated/linkedlicense/commonMain/.../GeneratedLicenses.kt
   package dev.noahtownsend.linkedlicense.generated.commonmain
   
   object GeneratedLicenses {
       val all: List<License> = listOf(/* ... */)
   }

   This matters even though each source set's generated file lives in its own build directory: Kotlin's default hierarchy template merges commonMain sources into every platform target's own compilation, so a jvmMain compile sees both commonMain's generated file and jvmMain's own — two identically-packaged, identically-named object GeneratedLicenses declarations in the same compilation is a redeclaration error. Distinct packages avoid that; import the specific one you want (commonmain for the cross-platform union, or a specific platform's own narrower catalog).

   Merge it with your own hand-curated entries as needed:

   import dev.noahtownsend.linkedlicense.generated.commonmain.GeneratedLicenses
   
   val allLicenses = GeneratedLicenses.all + listOf(
       License.Custom(
           elementLicensed = "Mapbox Maps",
           author = "Mapbox",
           url = "https://www.mapbox.com/about/maps/",
           text = "...",
           licenseName = "Mapbox ToS",
       ),
   )

The plugin only runs for a project that explicitly applies it, and only ever emits entries for what's actually resolved in that project's own dependency graph. Depending on dev.noahtownsend:linkedlicense alone — without applying the plugin — pulls in only the License types; nothing is scanned, generated, or bundled automatically, and no consumer is ever forced to ship or display license text for dependencies they don't have.

A Kotlin Multiplatform project can pull in dependencies outside Gradle/Maven entirely — npm packages for js/wasmJs targets, CocoaPods pods and Swift Package Manager packages for iOS interop. generateLicenseCatalog scans all three, folded into the same per-source- set pipeline (§2) and the same linkedlicense.toml overrides (§3.1), with the same fail-on-unknown/copyleft/policy checks — not a separate bolted-on tool with its own rules.

• npm (jsMain/wasmJsMain source sets with declared npm dependencies): resolved via the generated package.json/lockfile, each package's own package.json license field matched through the same SPDX-name table used for Maven POMs. Its repository field (a git URL) also feeds the best-guess fallback below when license is missing/unmatched.
• CocoaPods (when the kotlin-cocoapods plugin is applied): resolved via Podfile.lock, each pod's .podspec's license field (string or { type, file, text } object) matched the same way. Its source/homepage fields likewise feed the fallback below.
• SPM: Package.resolved only pins a git URL + revision — there's no license field anywhere in that chain to read, unlike npm/CocoaPods/Maven, so it only ever has the fallback below to go on (never a primary field match).

Maven POMs, npm's package.json, and CocoaPods' podspecs all usually carry a machine-readable license field, but not always — and SPM never does. In every one of those cases, if a repository/source URL is available (Maven's POM <scm>, npm's repository, a podspec's source/homepage, or SPM's Package.resolved URL directly), bestEffortLicenseFetch = true (default false) makes the plugin fetch that repo's root at the resolved revision, look for a LICENSE/LICENSE.md file, and pattern-match its content against known license texts.

This is opt-in because it adds network I/O and a new failure mode (repo unreachable) to what's otherwise an offline, deterministic build step, and heuristic text-matching can misfire in ways structured-field parsing can't — so every dependency resolved this way:

• Emits a build warning naming the coordinate and the guessed license, every build, so a best-guess entry is never silently indistinguishable from an authoritative field-matched one.
• Can have that warning silenced per-coordinate via a [suppress-best-guess-warnings] table in linkedlicense.toml (same ecosystem-prefixed key format as everywhere else) — for cases you've manually verified the guess is correct and don't want repeated noise on every build. This suppresses the warning only; the guessed license itself is still used and still subject to the copyleft guard (§3.5) and [license-policy] (§3.6) like any other entry.

[suppress-best-guess-warnings]
"spm:https://github.com/apple/swift-log" = "Verified 2026-08-14: Apache-2.0 LICENSE at tag 1.5.3."

(A reason string is required, same audit-trail pattern as [ignored]/[copyleft-allowed].)

Every dependency from any of these three ecosystems gets an override-table key prefixed with its ecosystem, in the same [overrides]/[ignored]/[copyleft-allowed]/ [license-policy] tables Maven coordinates already use (§3.1) — one file, one mental model:

[overrides]
"npm:left-pad" = { license = "MIT" }
"cocoapods:Alamofire" = { license = "MIT" }
"spm:https://github.com/apple/swift-log" = { license = "Apache2" }

linkedLicense {
    overridesFile = file("linkedlicense.toml")           // default shown
    copyRequiredNotices = true                           // default shown
    noticesOutputFile = file("THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES")      // default shown, see §3.4
    failOnCopyleft = true                                // default shown, see §3.5
    failOnSoftCopyleft = null                            // default shown, see §3.5 — null follows failOnCopyleft
    failOnUnknown = true                                 // default shown
    bestEffortLicenseFetch = false                       // default shown, see §2.3
    autoPopulate = true                                  // default shown, see §3.1
}

Overrides live in their own version-catalog-shaped TOML file.

[overrides]
"com.mapbox.maps:android" = { license = "Custom", elementLicensed = "Mapbox Maps", author = "Mapbox", text = "...", licenseName = "Mapbox ToS" }
"libs.okio" = { license = "Apache2" } # resolved via the version catalog, see 3.2
"androidx.concurrent:concurrent-futures-ktx" = { notice = "Copyright 2016-2024 JetBrains s.r.o and contributors" }

[ignored]
"com.example:internal-tool" = "Vendored fork, not redistributed; excluded from the catalog."

[copyleft-allowed]
"org.gnu:some-lib" = "Used only at build time, never linked into a shipped artifact."

[license-policy]
allow = ["MIT", "Apache2", "Bsd2Clause", "Bsd3Clause", "Isc"]
block = ["Gpl3"]

• [overrides] pins an exact coordinate to a specific built-in License type (or a custom one, via a custom: reference) — for POMs with no <licenses> block, an ambiguous/wrong block, or dependencies that aren't Maven artifacts at all (vendor terms, government open-data licenses, bundled fonts). You can also override specific fields (e.g. author = "...", elementLicensed = "...", url = "...", notice = "...") without specifying a license key — the plugin will auto-match the license from the POM / repo while applying your field overrides. Non-overridden fields are automatically populated from POM metadata and best-effort fallbacks by default (can be disabled via autoPopulate = false per entry or linkedLicense { autoPopulate = false } project-wide).
• [ignored] excludes a coordinate from the catalog entirely. A reason string is required — it's an audit trail, not just a switch.
• [copyleft-allowed] allow-lists a coordinate past the copyleft guard (§3.5). A reason string is required.
• [license-policy] — see §3.6, a license-type-level allow/block list (as opposed to the coordinate-level tables above).
• [overrides]/[ignored] are checked before auto-matching. Anything neither auto-matched nor covered by one of these three tables fails the build.

If overridesFile doesn't exist yet, generateLicenseCatalog creates it before doing anything else, fully scaffolded rather than empty — every table this file supports ([overrides], [ignored], [copyleft-allowed], [license-policy], [assets] (§3.7), [suppress-best-guess-warnings] (§2.3)) is present with a header comment explaining it and a commented-out example line showing the correct shape, so you never have to go back to this README to remember the syntax for a table you haven't needed yet:

# generated by linkedlicense — see https://github.com/noahddtownsend/LinkedLicense#3-configuring-the-plugin

[overrides]
# "group:artifact" = { license = "Apache2" }

[ignored]
# "group:artifact" = "reason"

[copyleft-allowed]
# "group:artifact" = "reason"

[license-policy]
# allow = ["MIT", "Apache2"]
# block = ["Gpl3"]

[assets]
# "asset-id" = { license = "MIT", elementLicensed = "...", author = "...", year = "..." }

[suppress-best-guess-warnings]
# "npm:package-name" = "reason"

This only fires when the file is genuinely absent — an existing file, even an empty one, is never touched or rewritten by the plugin.

A coordinate key in any of the three tables may be either a raw group:artifact string, or a libs.*-style alias resolved against your own libs.versions.toml via Gradle's VersionCatalogsExtension (e.g. "libs.koin"). Using the alias means the override stays correct automatically if the underlying coordinate changes but the catalog alias doesn't, instead of silently going stale.

A dependency that can't be auto-matched and has no [overrides]/[ignored] entry fails generateLicenseCatalog. The task collects every unresolved coordinate before failing, so you fix them all in one pass instead of one build cycle at a time. Unlicensed/unknown dependencies should never silently ship, so this defaults to on; set failOnUnknown = false if you need GeneratedLicenses.kt to still generate with unmatched dependencies simply omitted (not recommended — you lose the guarantee that every shipped dependency is accounted for). This is separate from -x generateLicenseCatalog, which skips the whole task rather than relaxing this one check.

Some licenses obligate you to carry forward specific notice text on redistribution, beyond just reproducing the license body — Apache 2.0 §4(d) is the common case (also e.g. BSD-3-Clause's non-endorsement notice, MPL's file-level notices).

The plugin automatically extracts NOTICE/NOTICE.txt files (under root or META-INF/) from resolved dependency jars/aars and surfaces them in two ways:

1. In-code on License.notice: Extracted notice text is passed directly to GeneratedLicenses.kt (with trailing duplicate license text bodies stripped, preserving genuine copyright and third-party attribution), where it is available at runtime and rendered in Compose UI via dev.noahtownsend:linkedlicense-compose.
2. As a flat file: Copies notices into noticesOutputFile (default THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES at the project root). You can change this destination (e.g. noticesOutputFile = file("src/main/assets/notices.txt")) or disable flat-file generation via copyRequiredNotices = false.

Set copyRequiredNotices = false to skip writing the flat file (the License.notice runtime property will still be populated). This is independent of the copyleft guard below — most Apache-licensed (permissive) dependencies carry a NOTICE obligation without being copyleft.

When a matched or overridden dependency resolves to a license with isCopyleft == true (GPL2/GPL3/AGPL3/LGPL2.1/LGPL3/MPL1/MPL1.1/MPL2/EPL1/EPL2/MSRL/CDDL1/CDDL1.1 among the built-ins), generateLicenseCatalog fails the build — same aggregated-list-of-offenders style as §3.3 — unless that coordinate has a [copyleft-allowed] entry, or you set failOnCopyleft = false project-wide.

failOnCopyleft governs strong copyleft (copyleftStrength == STRONG, e.g. GPL, AGPL) and is also the default for weak copyleft (copyleftStrength == WEAK, e.g. LGPL, MPL, EPL, MS-RL, CDDL) when you haven't said anything more specific. To treat weak copyleft differently from strong, set failOnSoftCopyleft (Boolean?, default null):

linkedLicense {
    failOnCopyleft = true          // governs strong copyleft; the fallback for weak copyleft
    failOnSoftCopyleft = false     // explicit override for weak copyleft only — takes
                                    // precedence over failOnCopyleft whenever it's non-null
}

• failOnSoftCopyleft = null (the default): weak-copyleft dependencies are governed by failOnCopyleft, same as strong ones — no behavior change from a single unified setting.
• failOnSoftCopyleft = false: weak-copyleft dependencies never fail the build regardless of failOnCopyleft, while strong copyleft still does (unless failOnCopyleft is also false).
• failOnSoftCopyleft = true: weak-copyleft dependencies always fail the build (subject to [copyleft-allowed] same as anything else) even if failOnCopyleft = false has turned the guard off for strong copyleft.
• [copyleft-allowed] is the same escape hatch for both strengths — it's a per-coordinate override, not a strength-specific one.

[license-policy] restricts which license types (not individual coordinates) are acceptable at all, independent of the copyleft guard:

[license-policy]
allow = ["MIT", "Apache2"]   # optional
block = ["Gpl3", "AGPL3"]    # optional

• If allow is non-empty, only dependencies whose resolved license type is in allow pass; everything else fails the build, regardless of block.
• If allow is empty or absent (the default), every license type passes except those listed in block — i.e. with no allow list defined, everything not on the blocklist is allowed.
• Entries reference license types by the same identifier used in [overrides]'s license = "..." field (a built-in type name like "MIT"/"Gpl3", or a custom:... symbol reference for your own subclasses).
• Violations are collected and reported the same aggregated way as §3.3/§3.5 — every offending coordinate and its license type in one failure, not one per build.
• This runs in addition to, not instead of, the copyleft guard (§3.5): a GPL dependency still needs a [copyleft-allowed] entry (or failOnCopyleft = false) even if you've also blocked/allowed it here, and vice versa. The two checks exist for different reasons — copyleft is a legal-risk default; [license-policy] is your own project's explicit policy — so both apply independently.

Not everything that needs attribution is a Gradle dependency — bundled fonts, datasets, images, and similar assets carry licenses/attribution too, but there's nothing to resolve off the dependency graph for them. Declare these in linkedlicense.toml instead of hand- merging a second list into GeneratedLicenses.all yourself:

[assets]
"mwgg-airports-db" = { license = "MIT", elementLicensed = "Airports JSON Database", author = "Martin Weyer (mwgg)", year = "2018", url = "https://github.com/mwgg/Airports" }
"cinzel-decorative-font" = { license = "Ofl", elementLicensed = "Cinzel Decorative Font", author = "Matt Tindal", url = "https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Cinzel+Decorative" }

• The key is an arbitrary asset identifier you choose (not a group:artifact coordinate — there's no dependency behind it to look one up from). The value shape matches [overrides] entries: a built-in license type name (or a custom: reference) plus that type's constructor arguments.
• Every [assets] entry is included in GeneratedLicenses.kt unconditionally, tagged kind = License.Kind.ASSET (see §1) — there's no matching/fail-on-unknown step for these, since you're supplying the license directly rather than asking the plugin to infer it.
• [license-policy] (§3.6) and the copyleft guard (§3.5) still apply to [assets] entries the same as scanned dependencies — a GPL-licensed dataset needs the same [copyleft-allowed] treatment a GPL-licensed library would.

License is abstract, not sealed — your own codebase can declare real subclasses (with their own licenseText logic, not just static text) for anything License.Custom's data-holding shape doesn't fit: a company-internal license, or a template with logic beyond simple placeholder substitution.

object MyCompanyLicense : License(
    elementLicensed = "Acme Internal SDK",
    author = "Acme Corp",
) {
    override val licenseText: String get() = "..."
}

Reference it from linkedlicense.toml by fully-qualified symbol name, prefixed custom::

[overrides]
"com.acme:internal-sdk" = { license = "custom:com.acme.licenses.MyCompanyLicense" }

generateLicenseCatalog emits a direct reference/import to that symbol in GeneratedLicenses.kt rather than trying to instantiate anything itself — your compiled code is the source of truth for what it does.

A separate module, dev.noahtownsend:linkedlicense-compose (package dev.noahtownsend.linkedlicense.compose), provides ready-made Compose Multiplatform components so you don't have to build a licenses screen by hand. All three are theme-agnostic — they read colors/typography from whatever MaterialTheme you already wrap them in and never apply one of their own — and each builds on the one before it:

1. LicensesList(licenses: List<License>, modifier: Modifier = Modifier) — a scrollable, sorted-by-author list where each entry expands/collapses to reveal its full licenseText.
2. LicensesDialog(licenses: List<License>, onDismissRequest: () -> Unit, modifier: Modifier = Modifier) — a full-screen dialog wrapping LicensesList, with an "X" close button. Independently usable: drive its visibility from your own state/trigger without touching element 3.
3. LicensesButton(licenses: List<License>, modifier: Modifier = Modifier) — the full solution: a row/text labeled "Licenses" (translated — see below) that manages its own dialog-visibility state and shows LicensesDialog on tap.

// Full solution
LicensesButton(licenses = GeneratedLicenses.all)

// Or drive the dialog yourself
var showLicenses by remember { mutableStateOf(false) }
if (showLicenses) {
    LicensesDialog(licenses = GeneratedLicenses.all, onDismissRequest = { showLicenses = false })
}

The "Licenses" label ships translated via Compose Multiplatform resources across roughly 40 locales.