diff --git a/.github/workflows/license-lint.yaml b/.github/workflows/license-lint.yaml
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+name: license-lint
+on:
+  push:
+    paths:
+      - "go.mod"
+      - "go.sum"
+      - "vendor/**"
+  pull_request:
+    paths:
+      - "go.mod"
+      - "go.sum"
+      - "vendor/**"
+
+jobs:
+  license-lint:
+    name: "license-lint"
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    timeout-minutes: 5
+    permissions:
+      contents: read
+    steps:
+      - name: Set up Go 1.19
+        uses: actions/setup-go@v3
+        with:
+          go-version: 1.19
+
+      - name: Check out code into the Go module directory
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+
+      - name: license-lint
+        run: |
+          export GOPATH="$HOME/go"
+          PATH="$GOPATH/bin:$PATH"
+          ./third_party/k8s.io/kubernetes/hack/verify-licenses.sh
diff --git a/third_party/k8s.io/README.md b/third_party/k8s.io/README.md
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+# k8s.io/kubernetes
+
+Forked from k8s.io/kubernetes@124fd62ad253f8362d78d5710d8d363aa1b376df
+
+This is a light fork to use scripts from kubernetes/kubernetes for gatekeeper's use cases.
+
+The original code can be found at https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/tree/124fd62ad253f8362d78d5710d8d363aa1b376df .
diff --git a/third_party/k8s.io/kubernetes/hack/verify-licenses.sh b/third_party/k8s.io/kubernetes/hack/verify-licenses.sh
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+++ b/third_party/k8s.io/kubernetes/hack/verify-licenses.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# Copyright 2016 The Kubernetes Authors.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# Usage: `hack/verify-licenses.sh`.
+
+
+set -o errexit
+set -o nounset
+set -o pipefail
+
+KUBE_TEMP=$(mktemp -d 2>/dev/null || mktemp -d -t kubernetes.XXXXXX)
+
+
+# Creating a new repository tree 
+# Deleting vendor directory to make go-licenses fetch license URLs from go-packages source repository
+git worktree add -f "${KUBE_TEMP}"/tmp_test_licenses/gatekeeper HEAD >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
+cd "${KUBE_TEMP}"/tmp_test_licenses/gatekeeper && rm -rf vendor
+
+
+# Explicitly opt into go modules, even though we're inside a GOPATH directory
+export GO111MODULE=on
+
+
+allowed_licenses=()
+packages_flagged=()
+packages_url_missing=()
+exit_code=0
+
+# Install go-licenses
+echo '[INFO] Installing go-licenses...'
+go install github.com/google/go-licenses@latest
+
+# Fetching CNCF Approved List Of Licenses
+# Refer: https://github.com/cncf/foundation/blob/main/allowed-third-party-license-policy.md
+curl -s 'https://spdx.org/licenses/licenses.json' -o "${KUBE_TEMP}"/licenses.json
+
+number_of_licenses=$(jq '.licenses | length' "${KUBE_TEMP}"/licenses.json)
+loop_index_length=$(( number_of_licenses - 1 ))
+
+
+echo '[INFO] Fetching current list of CNCF approved licenses...'
+for index in $(seq 0 $loop_index_length);
+do
+	licenseID=$(jq ".licenses[$index] .licenseId" "${KUBE_TEMP}"/licenses.json)
+	if [[ $(jq ".licenses[$index] .isDeprecatedLicenseId" "${KUBE_TEMP}"/licenses.json) == false ]]
+	then
+		allowed_licenses+=("${licenseID}")
+        fi	
+done
+
+
+# Scanning go-packages under the project & verifying against the CNCF approved list of licenses
+echo '[INFO] Starting license scan on go-packages...'
+go-licenses report ./... --include_tests >> "${KUBE_TEMP}"/licenses.csv
+
+echo -e 'PACKAGE_NAME  LICENSE_NAME  LICENSE_URL\n' >> "${KUBE_TEMP}"/approved_licenses.dump
+while IFS=, read -r GO_PACKAGE LICENSE_URL LICENSE_NAME
+do
+	FORMATTED_LICENSE_URL=
+	if [[ " ${allowed_licenses[*]} " == *"${LICENSE_NAME}"* ]];
+	then
+		if [[ "${LICENSE_URL}" == 'Unknown' ]];
+		then
+			if  [[ "${GO_PACKAGE}" != k8s.io/* ]];
+			then
+				echo "${GO_PACKAGE}  ${LICENSE_NAME}  ${LICENSE_URL}" >> "${KUBE_TEMP}"/approved_licenses_with_missing_urls.dump
+				packages_url_missing+=("${GO_PACKAGE}")
+			else
+				LICENSE_URL='https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/LICENSE'
+				echo "${GO_PACKAGE}  ${LICENSE_NAME}  ${LICENSE_URL}" >> "${KUBE_TEMP}"/approved_licenses.dump
+			fi
+		elif curl -Is "${LICENSE_URL}" | head -1 | grep -q 404;
+		then
+            # For gatekeeper, the script won't find the constraint frameworks's license atm.
+            if [[ "${GO_PACKAGE}" == github.com/open-policy-agent/frameworks/* ]];
+            then
+                LICENSE_URL='https://github.com/open-policy-agent/frameworks/blob/master/LICENSE'
+				echo "${GO_PACKAGE}  ${LICENSE_NAME}  ${LICENSE_URL}" >> "${KUBE_TEMP}"/approved_licenses.dump
+                continue
+            fi
+
+			# Check whether the License URL is incorrectly formed
+			# TODO: Remove this workaround check once PR https://github.com/google/go-licenses/pull/110 is merged
+			IFS='/' read -r -a split_license_url <<< ${LICENSE_URL}
+			for part_of_url in "${split_license_url[@]}"
+			do
+				if  [[ ${part_of_url} == '' ]]
+				then
+					continue
+				elif	[[ ${part_of_url} == 'https:' ]]
+				then
+					FORMATTED_LICENSE_URL+='https://'
+				else
+					if [[ ${part_of_url} =~ ^v[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+ ]]
+					then
+						FORMATTED_LICENSE_URL+="${part_of_url}/${split_license_url[-1]}"
+						break
+					else
+						FORMATTED_LICENSE_URL+="${part_of_url}/"
+					fi
+				fi
+			done
+			if curl -Is "${FORMATTED_LICENSE_URL}" | head -1 | grep -q 404;
+			then
+				packages_url_missing+=("${GO_PACKAGE}")
+				echo "${GO_PACKAGE}  ${LICENSE_NAME}  ${LICENSE_URL}" >> "${KUBE_TEMP}"/approved_licenses_with_missing_urls.dump
+			else
+				echo "${GO_PACKAGE}  ${LICENSE_NAME}  ${FORMATTED_LICENSE_URL}" >> "${KUBE_TEMP}"/approved_licenses.dump
+			fi
+		else
+			echo "${GO_PACKAGE}  ${LICENSE_NAME}  ${LICENSE_URL}" >> "${KUBE_TEMP}"/approved_licenses.dump
+		fi
+	else
+        # Not all packages at this point should go to the not approved dump.
+        # there are a few exceptions approved by CNCF as per: https://github.com/cncf/foundation/tree/main/license-exceptions
+        # Currently gatekeeper uses just one of those so we are not going to do a general solution.
+
+        if [[ "${GO_PACKAGE}" == "github.com/rcrowley/go-metrics" ]] && [[ "${LICENSE_NAME}" == "BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD" ]];
+        then
+            # as per https://github.com/cncf/foundation/blob/main/license-exceptions/cncf-exceptions-2019-11-01.json#L723-L726
+            echo "${GO_PACKAGE}  ${LICENSE_NAME}  ${LICENSE_URL}" >> "${KUBE_TEMP}"/approved_licenses.dump
+        else
+		    echo "${GO_PACKAGE}  ${LICENSE_NAME}  ${LICENSE_URL}" >> "${KUBE_TEMP}"/notapproved_licenses.dump
+		    packages_flagged+=("${GO_PACKAGE}")
+        fi
+	fi
+done < "${KUBE_TEMP}"/licenses.csv
+awk '{ printf "%-100s : %-20s : %s\n", $1, $2, $3 }' "${KUBE_TEMP}"/approved_licenses.dump
+
+
+if [[ ${#packages_url_missing[@]} -gt 0 ]]; then
+	echo -e '\n[ERROR] The following go-packages in the project have unknown or unreachable license URL:'
+	awk '{ printf "%-100s :  %-20s : %s\n", $1, $2, $3 }' "${KUBE_TEMP}"/approved_licenses_with_missing_urls.dump
+	exit_code=1
+fi
+
+
+if [[ ${#packages_flagged[@]} -gt 0 ]]; then
+	echo "[ERROR] The following go-packages in the project are using non-CNCF approved licenses. Please refer to the CNCF's approved licence list for further information: https://github.com/cncf/foundation/blob/main/allowed-third-party-license-policy.md"
+	awk '{ printf "%-100s :  %-20s : %s\n", $1, $2, $3 }' "${KUBE_TEMP}"/notapproved_licenses.dump
+	exit_code=1
+elif [[ "${exit_code}" -eq 1 ]]; then
+	echo "[ERROR] Project is using go-packages with unknown or unreachable license URLs. Please refer to the CNCF's approved licence list for further information: https://github.com/cncf/foundation/blob/main/allowed-third-party-license-policy.md"
+else
+	echo "[SUCCESS] Scan complete! All go-packages under the project are using current CNCF approved licenses!"
+fi
+
+exit "${exit_code}"