@guidesmiths/license-checker

@guidesmiths/license-checker

License checker for GuideSmiths projects

Description

This package allows you to do a quick audit on your NPM dependencies by adding it in your hooks.

You can optionally add options to exclude generating the report or avoid generating the error report in case a forbidden license is found (see more details here)

How to use it in your project

• Install the package

npm install @guidesmiths/license-checker

• Add a script to run the package

npx @guidesmiths/license-checker --failOn license1,license2

• Use the script wherever you want (husky hook, in your CI/CD pipeline, ...)

Options

Option	Description	Type	Default
--version	Shows the version of the package	boolean
--failOn	fail (exit with code 1) on the first occurrence of the licenses of the comma-separated list	string
--generateOutputOn	generates an output file only if any the licenses of the comma-separated list exist (output generated by default)	string
--outputFileName	name of the output file generated	string	licence-report-<timestamp>.txt
--errorReportFileName	name of the file generated when a licence in the failOn option is found	string	license-error-<timestamp>.txt
--disableErrorReport	flag to disable the error report file generation	boolean	false
-h, --help	Shows help	boolean

Useful links

• Licensing a repository
• Choose a license

Contributors ✨

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

Jose Manuel Torralvo Moyano 💻 📖 🤔 🚧 👀

Mario Quiroga 💻

Íñigo Marquínez 💻

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!

Changelog

1.0.3 (2023-06-30)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• added missing permissions in publication pipeline (#84) (c093a69)