diff --git a/.github/license_config.yml b/.github/license_config.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b5bd584230
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/license_config.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+license:
+  main: apache-2.0
+  report_missing: true
+  category: Permissive
+copyright:
+  check: true
+exclude:
+  extensions:
+    - yml
+    - yaml
+    - html
+    - rst
+    - conf
+    - cfg
+  langs:
+    - HTML
diff --git a/.github/workflows/license_check.yml b/.github/workflows/license_check.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9ece659014
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/license_check.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+name: Scancode
+
+on: [pull_request]
+
+jobs:
+  scancode_job:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    name: Scan code for licenses
+    steps:
+    - name: Checkout the code
+      uses: actions/checkout@v1
+    - name: Scan the code
+      id: scancode
+      uses: zephyrproject-rtos/action_scancode@v2
+      with:
+        directory-to-scan: 'scan/'
+    - name: Artifact Upload
+      uses: actions/upload-artifact@v1
+      with:
+        name: scancode
+        path: ./artifacts
+
+    - name: Verify
+      run: |
+        if [ -s ./artifacts/report.txt ]; then
+          report=$(cat ./artifacts/report.txt)
+          report="${report//'%'/'%25'}"
+          report="${report//$'\n'/'%0A'}"
+          report="${report//$'\r'/'%0D'}"
+          echo "::error file=./artifacts/report.txt::$report"
+          exit 1
+        fi