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 | `deny-licenses`*      | Contains a list of prohibited licenses. The action will fail on pull requests that introduce dependencies with licenses that match the list.                                      | Any [SPDX-compliant identifier(s)](https://spdx.org/licenses/) | none          |
 | `fail-on-scopes`†      | Contains a list of strings of the build environments you want to support. The action will fail on pull requests that introduce vulnerabilities in the scopes that match the list. |`runtime`, `development`, `unknown`                                                      | `runtime`     |
 | `allow-ghsas`         | Contains a list of GitHub Advisory Database IDs that can be skipped during detection.                                                                                             | Any GHSAs from the [GitHub Advisory Database](https://github.com/advisories)             | none          |
-| `license-check`       | Enable or disable the license check performed by the action.                                                                                                                                | `true`, `false`                                                                          | `false`       |
+| `license-check`       | Enable or disable the license check performed by the action.                                                                                                                                | `true`, `false`                                                                          | `true`       |
 | `vulnerability-check` | Enable or disable the vulnerability check performed by the action.                                                                                                                          | `true`, `false`                                                                          | `true`       |
 | `base-ref`/`head-ref` | Provide custom git references for the git base/head when performing the comparison check. This is only used for event types other than `pull_request_target`.                     | Any valid git ref(s) in your project                                                     | none          |