macOS
brew install cargo-aboutlocal Homebrew formula metadata
brew / rang 5989
Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de cargo-about pour les workflows d'agents IA.
installation
brew install cargo-aboutlocal Homebrew formula metadata
nix profile install nixpkgs#cargo-aboutnixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/ca/cargo-about/package.nix · Source: api.github.com
sudo pacman -S cargo-aboutArch Linux sync databases · cargo-about · Source: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com
aperçu
Cargo plugin to generate list of all licenses for a crate
historique
cargo-about is an Embark Studios Cargo plugin for generating license listings for the full dependency graph of a Rust crate. It sits at the intersection of Cargo metadata, SPDX license data, and release compliance work.
Embark Studios created the public cargo-about repository in November 2019 and released it as one of its open-source Rust tools. The README states that Embark uses and likes the tool internally, while warning that it is not legal advice.
The project provides both a command-line Cargo subcommand and an mdBook manual. Its normal workflow is to initialize an about.toml and template, then generate a license output such as an HTML notice file from dependency metadata.
cargo-about's adoption follows Rust projects that need repeatable license disclosure for dependency-heavy applications. The supplied package-manager facts list Homebrew, Nix, and Arch Linux packages, and the upstream README documents installation from crates.io and Arch Linux.
The project also benefited from Embark's wider open-source Rust toolchain presence. Its repository topics include SPDX, license-checking, Cargo plugin, and Rust, which describe the niche it occupies among Cargo subcommands.
The documented starting workflow is `cargo about init`, which creates about.toml and about.hbs in a Cargo project, followed by `cargo about generate about.hbs` to produce license information.
The official book documents commands and configuration for generating, clarifying, and working around license metadata issues, making cargo-about more of a compliance-report generator than a general dependency-audit scanner.
cargo-about matters because open-source license obligations are one of the least glamorous but most important parts of shipping packaged software. Rust's transitive dependency graphs can be large, and cargo-about turns that graph into a reproducible artifact for release notes, installers, game bundles, and product distributions.
For package nerds, its importance is also cultural: it is a Cargo subcommand that treats package metadata as operational data, using Cargo manifests and SPDX license identifiers to make dependency compliance automatable.
posture de sécurité
narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.
risque vert · confiance faible · appliance
Avant une utilisation sans surveillance par un agent, vérifiez si l'outil lit des identifiants en clair, écrit un état distant, publie des artefacts ou lance des plugins.
local files
These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.
Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.
<manifest_root>/about.tomlexécutables
| Commande | Type | Exposition | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
cargo-about | exécutable | exécutable indexé | Découvert depuis l'index local des exécutables. |
fraîcheur
Ces signaux séparent l'âge de génération de la page, l'activité du gestionnaire de paquets et la comparaison avec les versions amont. Un retard de version n'est signalé que lorsqu'une URL de preuve et des versions comparables sont présentes.
métadonnées d'installation
| Clé du paquet | brew:cargo-about |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.9.1 |
| Gestionnaire de paquets | Homebrew |
| Page d'accueil | https://github.com/EmbarkStudios/cargo-about |
| Dépôt | https://github.com/EmbarkStudios/cargo-about |
| Dernière mise à jour | 2026-06-30T12:38:26Z |
| Pulse | updated |
| Bouteille | non enregistré |
| Service | aucun déclaré |
correspondances dans les bases sources
Les correspondances proviennent d’index externes de gestionnaires de paquets et restent séparées des liens de paquets Automic Vault locaux.
cargo-about
nix profile install nixpkgs#cargo-aboutcargo-about 0.8.4-2
Cargo plugin to generate list of all licenses for a crate
https://github.com/EmbarkStudios/cargo-about
sudo pacman -S cargo-aboutpiste source
Cette page est servie par av-web depuis l'artéfact SQLite privé des paquets généré par scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.
View the package source record on GitHub.