Method: licenseCodes.get

Return a specified license code. License codes are mirrored across all projects that have permissions to read the License Code.

Caution This resource is intended for use only by third-party partners who are creating Cloud Marketplace images.

HTTP request

GET https://compute.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/{project}/global/licenseCodes/{licenseCode}

The URL uses gRPC Transcoding syntax. To know more about valid error responses that can be thrown by this HTTP request, please refer to the service error catalog

Path parameters

Parameters
project

string

Project ID for this request.
licenseCode

string

Number corresponding to the License code resource to return.

Request body

The request body must be empty.

Response body

Represents a License Code resource.

A License Code is a unique identifier used to represent a license resource.

Caution This resource is intended for use only by third-party partners who are creating Cloud Marketplace images.

If successful, the response body contains data with the following structure:

JSON representation 
{
  "kind": string,
  "id": string,
  "name": string,
  "creationTimestamp": string,
  "description": string,
  "selfLink": string,
  "transferable": boolean,
  "state": enum,
  "licenseAlias": [
    {
      "selfLink": string,
      "description": string
    }
  ],
  "appendableToDisk": boolean,
  "removableFromDisk": boolean,
  "allowedReplacementLicenses": [
    string
  ],
  "osLicense": boolean,
  "incompatibleLicenses": [
    string
  ],
  "requiredCoattachedLicenses": [
    string
  ],
  "soleTenantOnly": boolean,
  "multiTenantOnly": boolean,
  "minimumRetention": {
    "seconds": string,
    "nanos": integer
  },
  "updateTimestamp": string
}
Fields
kind

string

Output only. Type of resource. Always compute#licenseCode for licenses.
id

string (uint64 format)

Output only. The unique identifier for the resource. This identifier is defined by the server.
name

string

Output only. Name of the resource. The name is 1-20 characters long and must be a valid 64 bit integer.
creationTimestamp

string

Output only. Creation timestamp in RFC3339 text format.
description

string

Output only. Description of this License Code.
transferable

boolean

Output only. If true, the license will remain attached when creating images or snapshots from disks. Otherwise, the license is not transferred.
state

enum

Output only. Current state of this License Code.
licenseAlias[]

object

Output only. URL and description aliases of Licenses with the same License Code.
licenseAlias[].selfLink

string

Output only. URL of license corresponding to this License Code.
licenseAlias[].description

string

Output only. Description of this License Code.
appendableToDisk

boolean

If true, this license can be appended to an existing disk's set of licenses.

Available from 2026-03-01..
removableFromDisk

boolean

If true, this license can be removed from a disk's set of licenses, with no replacement license needed.

Available from 2026-03-01..
allowedReplacementLicenses[]

string

Specifies licenseCodes of licenses that can replace this license. Note: such replacements are allowed even if removableFromDisk is false.

Available from 2026-03-01..
osLicense

boolean

If true, indicates this is an OS license. Only one OS license can be attached to a disk or image at a time.

Available from 2026-03-01..
incompatibleLicenses[]

string

Specifies licenseCodes of licenses that are incompatible with this license. If a license is incompatible with this license, it cannot be attached to the same disk or image.

Available from 2026-03-01..
requiredCoattachedLicenses[]

string

Specifies the set of permissible coattached licenseCodes of licenses that satisfy the coattachment requirement of this license. At least one license from the set must be attached to the same disk or image as this license.

Available from 2026-03-01..
soleTenantOnly

boolean

If true, this license can only be used on VMs on sole tenant nodes.

Available from 2026-03-01..
multiTenantOnly

boolean

If true, this license can only be used on VMs on multi tenant nodes.

Available from 2026-03-01..
minimumRetention

object

If set, this license will be unable to be removed or replaced once attached to a disk until the minimumRetention period has passed.

Available from 2026-03-01..
minimumRetention.seconds

string (int64 format)

Span of time at a resolution of a second. Must be from 0 to 315,576,000,000 inclusive. Note: these bounds are computed from: 60 sec/min * 60 min/hr * 24 hr/day * 365.25 days/year * 10000 years
minimumRetention.nanos

integer

Span of time that's a fraction of a second at nanosecond resolution. Durations less than one second are represented with a 0 seconds field and a positive nanos field. Must be from 0 to 999,999,999 inclusive.
updateTimestamp

string

Output only. Last update timestamp in RFC3339 text format.

Available from 2026-03-01..

Authorization scopes

Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute.readonly
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

In addition to any permissions specified on the fields above, authorization requires one or more of the following IAM permissions:

  • compute.licenseCodes.get

To find predefined roles that contain those permissions, see Compute Engine IAM Roles.