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Check npm package licenses against a set of rules.
At the command line:
npm --global install licensee
cd /your/package/path
licensee
With Node.js:
var licensee = require('licensee');
var path = '/your/package/path';
var configuration = {
link: '(MIT OR ISC OR Apache-2.0)'
};
licensee(path, configuration, function(error, problems) {
console.error(problems);
});
licensee
checks license
properties in package.json
metadata. Licensing of packages with private: true
is ignored.
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The npm package licensee receives a total of 18,147 weekly downloads. As such, licensee popularity was classified as popular.
We found that licensee demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 0 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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