diff --git a/.github/scripts/scan-for-licenses.sh b/.github/scripts/scan-for-licenses.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+[[ "$RUNNER_DEBUG" == 1 ]] && set -x
+[[ -o xtrace ]] && export RUNNER_DEBUG=1
+
+set -eu
+set -o pipefail
+
+WHITELIST=(
+  "AGPL-3.0" # We're not writing software 🤷
+  "CC-BY-SA-3.0"
+  "CPL-1.0"
+  "GPL-1.0"
+  "GPL-2.0"
+  "GPL-2.0-with-autoconf-exception"
+  "GPL-2.0-with-bison-exception"
+  "GPL-3.0"
+  "GPL-3.0-with-autoconf-exception"
+  "LGPL-2.0"
+  "LGPL-2.1"
+  "LGPL-3.0"
+  "MPL-1.1"
+  "MPL-2.0"
+  "Ruby"
+  "Sleepycat"
+  "WTFPL"
+)
+
+# shellcheck disable=SC2016
+licenseConversionJq='map({Image: (.Metadata.RepoTags // .Metadata.RepoDigests)[0], License: (.Results[] | .Licenses[]? | .Name)} as $licenseInfo | $licenseInfo+{PackageOrPath: (.Results[] | .Licenses[]? | select(.Name == $licenseInfo.License) | if .PkgName != "" then .PkgName else .FilePath end)}) | group_by(.License) | map({(.[0].License): (map(del(.License)) | group_by(.Image) | map({(.[0].Image): map(.PackageOrPath) | unique}) | add) }) | add'
+function scanLicenses() {
+  local chart="${1?}"
+  local licenseMap
+  local unacceptedLicenses=()
+  local unacceptedLicense
+  licenseMap="$(yq -r '.annotations["artifacthub.io/images"]' "$chart/Chart.yaml" | yq -r '.[] | .image' |
+    parallel -k trivy image {} --severity HIGH,CRITICAL,MEDIUM -f json --scanners license --license-full --quiet  |
+    jq -s -r "$licenseConversionJq")"
+  mapfile -t unacceptedLicenses < <(<<<"$licenseMap" jq -r --argjson acceptedLicenses "[\"$(echo -n "${WHITELIST[@]}" | tr " " \\n |
+    paste -sd '@' | sed 's#@#","#g')\"]" '(keys-$acceptedLicenses)[]')
+  if [[ "${#unacceptedLicenses[@]}" -gt 0 ]]; then
+    echo "found ${#unacceptedLicenses[@]} untrusted images in '$chart', please fix;" >&2
+    for unacceptedLicense in "${unacceptedLicenses[@]}"; do
+      echo "license $unacceptedLicense has not been accepted and is used in the following images:" >&2
+      for image in $(<<<"$licenseMap" jq -r --arg unacceptedLicense "$unacceptedLicense" '.[$unacceptedLicense] | keys[]'); do
+        echo "  > $image:" >&2
+        for packageOrFile in $(<<<"$licenseMap" jq -r --arg unacceptedLicense "$unacceptedLicense" --arg image "$image" '.[$unacceptedLicense][$image][]'); do
+          echo "      - $packageOrFile" >&2
+        done
+      done
+    done
+    return 1
+  fi
+}
+
+if [[ "$#" == 1 && -d "$1" ]]; then
+  scanLicenses "$1"
+else
+  result=0
+  for chart in charts/*; do
+    [[ -d "$chart" ]] || continue
+
+    if ! scanLicenses "$chart"; then
+      result=1
+    fi
+  done
+  exit "$result"
+fi
+
+
+
diff --git a/.github/workflows/check-licenses.yaml b/.github/workflows/check-licenses.yaml
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+name: Lint Helm Charts
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    types:
+      - opened
+      - edited
+      - reopened
+      - synchronize
+    paths:
+      - charts/**
+  merge_group:
+    types:
+      - checks_requested
+
+jobs:
+  getAllCharts:
+    uses: ./.github/workflows/get-all-charts.yaml
+    with:
+      showLibraryCharts: false
+  check-licenses:
+    name: check licenses
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    needs: getAllCharts
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        chart: ${{ fromJson(needs.getAllCharts.outputs.charts) }}
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@692973e3d937129bcbf40652eb9f2f61becf3332 # v4
+      - run: pip install yq
+      - run: ./.github/scrips/scan-for-licenses.sh ${{ matrix.chart }}