Configure OSV-Scanner to ignore or override the license of a specific package using osv-scanner.toml PackageOverrides
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Verified steps
Add a [[PackageOverrides]] table to osv-scanner.toml in the directory containing the manifest/lockfile to be scanned.
Specify one or more match fields — name, version, ecosystem, group — to target the package(s); set nameIsRegex = true to match name as a regular expression (automatically anchored to ^pattern$).
Choose the action: ignore = true to suppress both vulnerability and license findings entirely, vulnerability.ignore = true to suppress only vulnerabilities, or license.ignore = true / license.override = ["MIT", ...] to suppress or replace the reported license.
Optionally set effectiveUntil to a bare TOML local date (YYYY-MM-DD) so the override expires automatically, and add a reason string to document why it exists.
Re-run osv-scanner and confirm the targeted package(s) no longer appear in the relevant findings while unrelated packages are unaffected.
Known gotchas
All configured match fields on a PackageOverrides entry must match simultaneously — an override with only ecosystem = "npm" applies to every npm package, which is broader than intended if you meant to also scope by name or group.
Like IgnoredVulns' ignoreUntil, effectiveUntil is a bare TOML date, not a quoted string.
A PackageOverrides block only affects the directory its osv-scanner.toml lives in; nested lockfiles in child directories need their own config or a --config override.
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