---
title: "POST /v1/namespaces/{tenant_meta.namespace}/queries/package-version-licenses"
method: POST
path: "/v1/namespaces/{tenant_meta.namespace}/queries/package-version-licenses"
tags: ["PackageVersionLicenseQueryService"]
---

# POST /v1/namespaces/{tenant_meta.namespace}/queries/package-version-licenses

`POST /v1/namespaces/{tenant_meta.namespace}/queries/package-version-licenses`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.endorlabs.com`
- URL: `https://api.endorlabs.com/v1/namespaces/{tenant_meta.namespace}/queries/package-version-licenses`
- Auth: none declared

## Path parameters

- `tenant_meta.namespace` string, required

## Request body

- PackageVersionLicenseQueryServiceCreatePackageVersionLicenseQueryBody
  - `meta` V1Meta, required: Common fields for all Endor Labs resources.
    - `annotations` object: Annotations can be used to attach metadata to a resource message. Annotation values can be small or large, structured or unstructured, and may include characters not permitted by labels. The keys may contain alphanumerics, underscores (_), dots (.) and dashes (-). The values of an annotation must be 16384 bytes or smaller.
    - `create_time` string, date-time: Time the resource was created. Format: 2017-01-15T01:30:15.01Z RFC 3339: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3339.txt.
    - `created_by` string: Name and authentication source of the user who created the object, for example, ewok@endor.ai@google@api-key.
    - `description` string: Resource description. Must be less than 1024 bytes.
    - `index_data` V1IndexData: IndexData is used to index the resource for search. It's an internal object.
      - `data` string[]
      - `search_score` number, float: search_score is the score of the resource for search. Internal use only.
      - `tenant` string
      - `will_be_deleted_at` string, date-time: Time that the resource will be deleted.
    - `kind` string: Resource kind, for example, HelloResponse. Auto-generated using the protobuf message proto.MessageName().Name().
    - `name` string, required: Resource name. Must be 63 characters or less.
    - `parent_kind` string: Parent object resource kind, for example, Project.
    - `parent_uuid` string: Parent object UUID.
    - `references` object: Map of objects referenced in a query API.
    - `tags` string[]: List of tags attached to the resource. Tags can be used to select objects and to find collections of objects that satisfy certain conditions. A tag must be 255 characters or less.
    - `update_time` string, date-time: Time the resource was last updated. Note: Updated on all create/patch/delete operations. Format: 2017-01-15T01:30:15.01Z RFC 3339: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3339.txt.
    - `updated_by` string: Name and authentication source of the last user who updated the object, for example, vulnerabilityingestor@endor.ai@x509.
    - `upsert_time` string, date-time: Time the resource was last upserted. Note: create_time is only set the first time the resource is created. upsert_time is set every time the resource is upseted. Format: 2017-01-15T01:30:15.01Z RFC 3339: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3339.txt.
    - `version` string: Message version.
  - `spec` V1PackageVersionLicenseQuerySpec, required
    - `requests` V1PackageVersionLicenseQueryRequest[], required: Caller can issue multiple requests (up to 32).
      - `license_data` V1LicenseData: Contains a summary of license information for a project or package. This will be included as the payload of a metric object.
        - `all_licenses` V1LicenseInfo[]: All the licenses found by Endor Labs.
          - `file` string: The name of the file where the license was found.
          - `file_location` integer: The line in the file where the license text begins.
          - `mapping_info` 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_UNSPECIFIED' | 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_NOT_OSS' | 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_IN_CODE' | 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_UNKNOWN' | 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_NOT_INCOMPLETE' | 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_PRIVATE' | 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_EXACT' | 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_UNLICENSED': LicenseMappingInfo contains additional information that we determine when we attempt to match a license string to a known SPDX id. - LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_NOT_OSS: This does not look to like an OSS license. - LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_IN_CODE: License information is to be found in the code. - LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_UNKNOWN: Cannot determine anything about the license. - LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_NOT_INCOMPLETE: There is some license information, but is not detailed enough. - LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_PRIVATE: Appears to be a private package. - LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_EXACT: An exact match to a SPDX id. - LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_UNLICENSED: Seems to be explicitly without license.
          - `matched_text` string: The license text that was matched.
          - `name` string, required: Raw license description as found, for example in package managers. It is free form text that may not contain a valid SPDX ID.
          - `spdxid` string: Normalized SPDX id if known.
          - `type` string: License classification (based on licenseclassifier by Google).
          - `url` string: The URL that points to the license description.
        - `code_licenses` V1LicenseInfo[]: The licenses found in the source code.
          - `file` string: The name of the file where the license was found.
          - `file_location` integer: The line in the file where the license text begins.
          - `mapping_info` 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_UNSPECIFIED' | 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_NOT_OSS' | 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_IN_CODE' | 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_UNKNOWN' | 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_NOT_INCOMPLETE' | 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_PRIVATE' | 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_EXACT' | 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_UNLICENSED': LicenseMappingInfo contains additional information that we determine when we attempt to match a license string to a known SPDX id. - LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_NOT_OSS: This does not look to like an OSS license. - LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_IN_CODE: License information is to be found in the code. - LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_UNKNOWN: Cannot determine anything about the license. - LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_NOT_INCOMPLETE: There is some license information, but is not detailed enough. - LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_PRIVATE: Appears to be a private package. - LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_EXACT: An exact match to a SPDX id. - LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_UNLICENSED: Seems to be explicitly without license.
          - `matched_text` string: The license text that was matched.
          - `name` string, required: Raw license description as found, for example in package managers. It is free form text that may not contain a valid SPDX ID.
          - `spdxid` string: Normalized SPDX id if known.
          - `type` string: License classification (based on licenseclassifier by Google).
          - `url` string: The URL that points to the license description.
        - `copyrights` string[]: The list of copyright notices found in source files.
        - `package_manager_licenses` V1LicenseInfo[]: The licenses from the package manager.
          - `file` string: The name of the file where the license was found.
          - `file_location` integer: The line in the file where the license text begins.
          - `mapping_info` 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_UNSPECIFIED' | 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_NOT_OSS' | 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_IN_CODE' | 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_UNKNOWN' | 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_NOT_INCOMPLETE' | 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_PRIVATE' | 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_EXACT' | 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_UNLICENSED': LicenseMappingInfo contains additional information that we determine when we attempt to match a license string to a known SPDX id. - LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_NOT_OSS: This does not look to like an OSS license. - LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_IN_CODE: License information is to be found in the code. - LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_UNKNOWN: Cannot determine anything about the license. - LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_NOT_INCOMPLETE: There is some license information, but is not detailed enough. - LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_PRIVATE: Appears to be a private package. - LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_EXACT: An exact match to a SPDX id. - LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_UNLICENSED: Seems to be explicitly without license.
          - `matched_text` string: The license text that was matched.
          - `name` string, required: Raw license description as found, for example in package managers. It is free form text that may not contain a valid SPDX ID.
          - `spdxid` string: Normalized SPDX id if known.
          - `type` string: License classification (based on licenseclassifier by Google).
          - `url` string: The URL that points to the license description.
        - `repository_license` V1LicenseInfo: LicenseInfo contains information for a license.
          - `file` string: The name of the file where the license was found.
          - `file_location` integer: The line in the file where the license text begins.
          - `mapping_info` 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_UNSPECIFIED' | 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_NOT_OSS' | 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_IN_CODE' | 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_UNKNOWN' | 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_NOT_INCOMPLETE' | 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_PRIVATE' | 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_EXACT' | 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_UNLICENSED': LicenseMappingInfo contains additional information that we determine when we attempt to match a license string to a known SPDX id. - LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_NOT_OSS: This does not look to like an OSS license. - LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_IN_CODE: License information is to be found in the code. - LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_UNKNOWN: Cannot determine anything about the license. - LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_NOT_INCOMPLETE: There is some license information, but is not detailed enough. - LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_PRIVATE: Appears to be a private package. - LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_EXACT: An exact match to a SPDX id. - LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_UNLICENSED: Seems to be explicitly without license.
          - `matched_text` string: The license text that was matched.
          - `name` string, required: Raw license description as found, for example in package managers. It is free form text that may not contain a valid SPDX ID.
          - `spdxid` string: Normalized SPDX id if known.
          - `type` string: License classification (based on licenseclassifier by Google).
          - `url` string: The URL that points to the license description.
      - `license_source` 'LICENSE_SOURCE_UNSPECIFIED' | 'LICENSE_SOURCE_PKG_MGR_ONLY' | 'LICENSE_SOURCE_PKG_MGR_AND_CODE' | 'LICENSE_SOURCE_CODE_ONLY' | 'LICENSE_SOURCE_NOT_FOUND': Enum to describe the source of license information. - LICENSE_SOURCE_UNSPECIFIED: Licesne Source unspecified - LICENSE_SOURCE_PKG_MGR_ONLY: License was found only in the package manager metadata, but not in the source code. This may happen if source code is unavailable or scanning failed. In this case, spec.license_data contains only package manager license(s). - LICENSE_SOURCE_PKG_MGR_AND_CODE: License was found in both the code and the package manager. spec.license_data contains all licenses, and the Metric includes the package manager license. - LICENSE_SOURCE_CODE_ONLY: License was found only in the code , not in the package manager. spec.license_data will not include any package manager license. - LICENSE_SOURCE_NOT_FOUND: No license data found anywhere
      - `package_version_name` string, required: The fully qualified package name must be always provided.
  - `tenant_meta` object: Package version license is associated with a tenant.
  - `uuid` string: The UUID of the query and makes the object compatible with the system.

## Response `200`

A successful response.

- V1PackageVersionLicenseQuery
  - `meta` V1Meta, required: Common fields for all Endor Labs resources.
    - `annotations` object: Annotations can be used to attach metadata to a resource message. Annotation values can be small or large, structured or unstructured, and may include characters not permitted by labels. The keys may contain alphanumerics, underscores (_), dots (.) and dashes (-). The values of an annotation must be 16384 bytes or smaller.
    - `create_time` string, date-time: Time the resource was created. Format: 2017-01-15T01:30:15.01Z RFC 3339: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3339.txt.
    - `created_by` string: Name and authentication source of the user who created the object, for example, ewok@endor.ai@google@api-key.
    - `description` string: Resource description. Must be less than 1024 bytes.
    - `index_data` V1IndexData: IndexData is used to index the resource for search. It's an internal object.
      - `data` string[]
      - `search_score` number, float: search_score is the score of the resource for search. Internal use only.
      - `tenant` string
      - `will_be_deleted_at` string, date-time: Time that the resource will be deleted.
    - `kind` string: Resource kind, for example, HelloResponse. Auto-generated using the protobuf message proto.MessageName().Name().
    - `name` string, required: Resource name. Must be 63 characters or less.
    - `parent_kind` string: Parent object resource kind, for example, Project.
    - `parent_uuid` string: Parent object UUID.
    - `references` object: Map of objects referenced in a query API.
    - `tags` string[]: List of tags attached to the resource. Tags can be used to select objects and to find collections of objects that satisfy certain conditions. A tag must be 255 characters or less.
    - `update_time` string, date-time: Time the resource was last updated. Note: Updated on all create/patch/delete operations. Format: 2017-01-15T01:30:15.01Z RFC 3339: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3339.txt.
    - `updated_by` string: Name and authentication source of the last user who updated the object, for example, vulnerabilityingestor@endor.ai@x509.
    - `upsert_time` string, date-time: Time the resource was last upserted. Note: create_time is only set the first time the resource is created. upsert_time is set every time the resource is upseted. Format: 2017-01-15T01:30:15.01Z RFC 3339: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3339.txt.
    - `version` string: Message version.
  - `spec` V1PackageVersionLicenseQuerySpec, required
    - `requests` V1PackageVersionLicenseQueryRequest[], required: Caller can issue multiple requests (up to 32).
      - `license_data` V1LicenseData: Contains a summary of license information for a project or package. This will be included as the payload of a metric object.
        - `all_licenses` V1LicenseInfo[]: All the licenses found by Endor Labs.
          - `file` string: The name of the file where the license was found.
          - `file_location` integer: The line in the file where the license text begins.
          - `mapping_info` 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_UNSPECIFIED' | 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_NOT_OSS' | 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_IN_CODE' | 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_UNKNOWN' | 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_NOT_INCOMPLETE' | 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_PRIVATE' | 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_EXACT' | 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_UNLICENSED': LicenseMappingInfo contains additional information that we determine when we attempt to match a license string to a known SPDX id. - LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_NOT_OSS: This does not look to like an OSS license. - LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_IN_CODE: License information is to be found in the code. - LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_UNKNOWN: Cannot determine anything about the license. - LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_NOT_INCOMPLETE: There is some license information, but is not detailed enough. - LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_PRIVATE: Appears to be a private package. - LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_EXACT: An exact match to a SPDX id. - LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_UNLICENSED: Seems to be explicitly without license.
          - `matched_text` string: The license text that was matched.
          - `name` string, required: Raw license description as found, for example in package managers. It is free form text that may not contain a valid SPDX ID.
          - `spdxid` string: Normalized SPDX id if known.
          - `type` string: License classification (based on licenseclassifier by Google).
          - `url` string: The URL that points to the license description.
        - `code_licenses` V1LicenseInfo[]: The licenses found in the source code.
          - `file` string: The name of the file where the license was found.
          - `file_location` integer: The line in the file where the license text begins.
          - `mapping_info` 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_UNSPECIFIED' | 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_NOT_OSS' | 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_IN_CODE' | 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_UNKNOWN' | 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_NOT_INCOMPLETE' | 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_PRIVATE' | 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_EXACT' | 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_UNLICENSED': LicenseMappingInfo contains additional information that we determine when we attempt to match a license string to a known SPDX id. - LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_NOT_OSS: This does not look to like an OSS license. - LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_IN_CODE: License information is to be found in the code. - LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_UNKNOWN: Cannot determine anything about the license. - LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_NOT_INCOMPLETE: There is some license information, but is not detailed enough. - LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_PRIVATE: Appears to be a private package. - LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_EXACT: An exact match to a SPDX id. - LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_UNLICENSED: Seems to be explicitly without license.
          - `matched_text` string: The license text that was matched.
          - `name` string, required: Raw license description as found, for example in package managers. It is free form text that may not contain a valid SPDX ID.
          - `spdxid` string: Normalized SPDX id if known.
          - `type` string: License classification (based on licenseclassifier by Google).
          - `url` string: The URL that points to the license description.
        - `copyrights` string[]: The list of copyright notices found in source files.
        - `package_manager_licenses` V1LicenseInfo[]: The licenses from the package manager.
          - `file` string: The name of the file where the license was found.
          - `file_location` integer: The line in the file where the license text begins.
          - `mapping_info` 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_UNSPECIFIED' | 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_NOT_OSS' | 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_IN_CODE' | 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_UNKNOWN' | 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_NOT_INCOMPLETE' | 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_PRIVATE' | 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_EXACT' | 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_UNLICENSED': LicenseMappingInfo contains additional information that we determine when we attempt to match a license string to a known SPDX id. - LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_NOT_OSS: This does not look to like an OSS license. - LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_IN_CODE: License information is to be found in the code. - LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_UNKNOWN: Cannot determine anything about the license. - LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_NOT_INCOMPLETE: There is some license information, but is not detailed enough. - LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_PRIVATE: Appears to be a private package. - LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_EXACT: An exact match to a SPDX id. - LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_UNLICENSED: Seems to be explicitly without license.
          - `matched_text` string: The license text that was matched.
          - `name` string, required: Raw license description as found, for example in package managers. It is free form text that may not contain a valid SPDX ID.
          - `spdxid` string: Normalized SPDX id if known.
          - `type` string: License classification (based on licenseclassifier by Google).
          - `url` string: The URL that points to the license description.
        - `repository_license` V1LicenseInfo: LicenseInfo contains information for a license.
          - `file` string: The name of the file where the license was found.
          - `file_location` integer: The line in the file where the license text begins.
          - `mapping_info` 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_UNSPECIFIED' | 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_NOT_OSS' | 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_IN_CODE' | 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_UNKNOWN' | 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_NOT_INCOMPLETE' | 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_PRIVATE' | 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_EXACT' | 'LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_UNLICENSED': LicenseMappingInfo contains additional information that we determine when we attempt to match a license string to a known SPDX id. - LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_NOT_OSS: This does not look to like an OSS license. - LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_IN_CODE: License information is to be found in the code. - LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_UNKNOWN: Cannot determine anything about the license. - LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_NOT_INCOMPLETE: There is some license information, but is not detailed enough. - LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_PRIVATE: Appears to be a private package. - LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_EXACT: An exact match to a SPDX id. - LICENSE_MAPPING_INFO_UNLICENSED: Seems to be explicitly without license.
          - `matched_text` string: The license text that was matched.
          - `name` string, required: Raw license description as found, for example in package managers. It is free form text that may not contain a valid SPDX ID.
          - `spdxid` string: Normalized SPDX id if known.
          - `type` string: License classification (based on licenseclassifier by Google).
          - `url` string: The URL that points to the license description.
      - `license_source` 'LICENSE_SOURCE_UNSPECIFIED' | 'LICENSE_SOURCE_PKG_MGR_ONLY' | 'LICENSE_SOURCE_PKG_MGR_AND_CODE' | 'LICENSE_SOURCE_CODE_ONLY' | 'LICENSE_SOURCE_NOT_FOUND': Enum to describe the source of license information. - LICENSE_SOURCE_UNSPECIFIED: Licesne Source unspecified - LICENSE_SOURCE_PKG_MGR_ONLY: License was found only in the package manager metadata, but not in the source code. This may happen if source code is unavailable or scanning failed. In this case, spec.license_data contains only package manager license(s). - LICENSE_SOURCE_PKG_MGR_AND_CODE: License was found in both the code and the package manager. spec.license_data contains all licenses, and the Metric includes the package manager license. - LICENSE_SOURCE_CODE_ONLY: License was found only in the code , not in the package manager. spec.license_data will not include any package manager license. - LICENSE_SOURCE_NOT_FOUND: No license data found anywhere
      - `package_version_name` string, required: The fully qualified package name must be always provided.
  - `tenant_meta` V1TenantMeta: Tenant related data for the tenant containing the resource.
    - `namespace` string, required: Namespaces are a way to organize organizational units into virtual groupings of resources. Namespaces must be a fully qualified name, for example, the child namespace of namespace "endor.prod" called "app" is called "endor.prod.app".
  - `uuid` string: The UUID of the query and makes the object compatible with the system.

## Other responses

- `default`: An unexpected error response.

## Changes

- **2026-11-03** `4acd9fe15140`: 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/endorlabs/apis/endor-labs-rest-api-reference/changes/v1/namespaces/:tenant_meta.namespace/queries/package-version-licenses/post.md)

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