Apache2 License Checker

Automated license checker for validating project dependencies for compatible Apache2 licenses.

Use with your project

• Run npm install apache2-license-checker --save-dev
• Run apache2-license-checker in the root of your project
• Modify your package.json to include apache2-license-checker as part of your test script

For example:

...
  "scripts": {
    "test": "mocha && npm run check-licenses",
    "check-licenses": "apache2-license-checker"
  },
...

The license checker will fail with an exit code of 1 if there are any problems with the license, and will pass with an exit code of 0 if all checks are ok.

A temporary file licenses.json will be created containing a full license analysis based on output from the license-checker tool.

Development

• Check out the code
• Run npm install
• Run npm test

Modify scripts/whitelist.js to allow additional licenses or license combinations.

Modify scripts/exceptions.js to allow specific modules for a given reason.

Example output

Acceptable project licenses (uses):
  (MIT AND CC-BY-3.0) (1)
  Apache-2.0 (3)
  BSD-2-Clause (1)
  BSD-3-Clause (1)
  ISC (15)
  MIT (23)
  Unlicense (1)
  WTFPL (1)

Acceptable project license exceptions:
  [email protected]
    Reason: Not required, acceptable use for BBC internal deployments
  [email protected]
    Reason: Public Domain; see: https://github.com/dscape/cycle/
  [email protected]
    Reason: MIT License; see: https://github.com/dominictarr/map-stream

All licenses ok Licensed (46) Exceptions (0) Problems (0)