wharf-collect-licenses-js

Collects licenses from node_modules and GitHub and outputs license texts and metadata in JSON format.

Extends license-checker with better filtering, validation, and fetching licenses from GitHub.com if the license text is missing from the node_modules folder.

Usage

1. First install:

   $ npm install --save-dev @iver-wharf/wharf-collect-licenses@2

2. Then write a simple JavaScript file to use it:

   // collect-licenses.mjs
   
   const { collectLicenses } = require('@iver-wharf/wharf-collect-licenses');
   
   collectLicenses({
     outputFilePath: 'src/assets/licenses.json',
     licenseOverridesPath: 'deploy/collect-licenses/licenses_override',
   
     excludedSPDXLicenses: [
       '0BSD', // The 0BSD license requires no attribution.
     ],
   
     excludedPackages: [
       '@fortawesome/[email protected]', // already contains license notice in stylesheets
     ],
   
     errorOnPackageNames: [
       { name: '@fortawesome/fontawesome-free', error: 'not sure version also embeds license in stylesheets' },
     ],
   });

3. Then run it via Node:

   $ node collect-licenses.mjs
   
   Checking packages in package: /home/me/code/wharf/wharf-web
   Using license overrides from: /home/me/code/wharf/wharf-web/deploy/collect-licenses/licenses_override
   Excluding packages: [ '@fortawesome/[email protected]' ]
   Excluding licenses: [ '0BSD' ]
   Error on non-excluded package names: [
     {
       name: '@fortawesome/fontawesome-free',
       error: 'not sure version also embeds license in stylesheets'
     }
   ]
   Resulting JSON will be written to: /home/me/code/wharf/wharf-web/src/assets/licenses.json
   
   Found remote license for @angular/[email protected]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/angular/angular/12.1.1/LICENSE
   Found remote license for @angular/[email protected]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/angular/angular/12.1.1/LICENSE
   Found remote license for @angular/[email protected]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/angular/angular/12.1.1/LICENSE
   Found remote license for @angular/[email protected]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/angular/angular/12.1.1/LICENSE
   Found remote license for @angular/[email protected]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/angular/angular/12.1.1/LICENSE
   Found remote license for @angular/[email protected]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/angular/angular/12.1.1/LICENSE
   Found remote license for @angular/[email protected]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/angular/angular/12.1.1/LICENSE
   Found remote license for @angular/[email protected]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/angular/angular/12.1.1/LICENSE
   Found remote license for [email protected]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/primefaces/primeng/12.0.0/LICENSE.md
   
   Found licenses:
   ┌─────────┬────────────────────────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────────────────┬──────────────┐
   │ (index) │                  package                   │                    repo                    │   licenses   │
   ├─────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────┤
   │    0    │        '@angular/[email protected]'        │    'https://github.com/angular/angular'    │    'MIT'     │
   │    1    │           '@angular/[email protected]'            │  'https://github.com/angular/components'   │    'MIT'     │
   │    2    │          '@angular/[email protected]'          │    'https://github.com/angular/angular'    │    'MIT'     │
   │    3    │         '@angular/[email protected]'         │    'https://github.com/angular/angular'    │    'MIT'     │
   │    4    │           '@angular/[email protected]'           │    'https://github.com/angular/angular'    │    'MIT'     │
   │    5    │          '@angular/[email protected]'           │    'https://github.com/angular/angular'    │    'MIT'     │
   │    6    │ '@angular/[email protected]' │    'https://github.com/angular/angular'    │    'MIT'     │
   │    7    │     '@angular/[email protected]'     │    'https://github.com/angular/angular'    │    'MIT'     │
   │    8    │          '@angular/[email protected]'          │    'https://github.com/angular/angular'    │    'MIT'     │
   │    9    │          '[email protected]'          │ 'https://github.com/sguiheux/EventSource'  │    'MIT'     │
   │   10    │               '[email protected]'               │    'https://github.com/inikulin/parse5'    │    'MIT'     │
   │   11    │             '[email protected]'             │ 'https://github.com/primefaces/primeicons' │    'MIT'     │
   │   12    │              '[email protected]'              │  'https://github.com/primefaces/primeng'   │    'MIT'     │
   │   13    │              '[email protected]'              │     'https://github.com/PrismJS/prism'     │    'MIT'     │
   │   14    │                '[email protected]'                │    'https://github.com/reactivex/rxjs'     │ 'Apache-2.0' │
   │   15    │              '[email protected]'              │    'https://github.com/angular/angular'    │    'MIT'     │
   └─────────┴────────────────────────────────────────────┴────────────────────────────────────────────┴──────────────┘
   
   Written to: /home/me/code/wharf/wharf-web/src/assets/licenses.json

The resulting JSON file contains the following format:

[
  {
    "name": "string",
    "version": "string",
    "description": "string or undefined",
    "repository": "string or undefined",
    "url": "string or undefined",
    "licenses": [ "string" ],
    "licenseText": "string"
  }
]

Maintained by Iver. Licensed under the MIT license.