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LicenseGate MCP Server

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LicenseGate is answering right now. Last checked 13 min ago. It exposes 1 tools.

Open-source licence risk checks for AI coding agents and dependency trees.

Uptime history 54 days of history · worst day 97%
54 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
1
Tools
read from the server
460 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check LicenseGate every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 13 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add licensegate --transport http https://licensegate.onrender.com/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "licensegate": {
      "url": "https://licensegate.onrender.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.licensegate]
url = "https://licensegate.onrender.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "licensegate": {
      "url": "https://licensegate.onrender.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "licensegate": {
      "url": "https://licensegate.onrender.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 1

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

software
check_software_license
Check a software package and its dependency tree for open-source licence risk before adding it to a project. ecosystem examples: pypi, npm, maven, cargo use_case examples: hosted-saas distributed-closed-source

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://licensegate.onrender.com/mcp streamable-http answering 239 ms 13 min ago

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LicenseGate — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can LicenseGate do?
It exposes 1 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: check_software_license. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is LicenseGate working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 460 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect LicenseGate?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does LicenseGate need an API key?
No. LicenseGate completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 1 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is LicenseGate?
It answers our handshake in 460 ms on average, which is faster than 25% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.