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A list of SPDX license identifiers
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npm install spdx-license-ids
Type: string[]
All license IDs except for the currently deprecated ones.
const ids = require('spdx-license-ids');
//=> ['0BSD', 'AAL', 'ADSL', 'AFL-1.1', 'AFL-1.2', 'AFL-2.0', 'AFL-2.1', 'AFL-3.0', 'AGPL-1.0-only', ...]
ids.includes('BSD-3-Clause'); //=> true
ids.includes('CC-BY-1.0'); //=> true
ids.includes('GPL-3.0'); //=> false
Type: string[]
Deprecated license IDs.
const deprecatedIds = require('spdx-license-ids/deprecated');
//=> ['AGPL-1.0', 'AGPL-3.0', 'GFDL-1.1', 'GFDL-1.2', 'GFDL-1.3', 'GPL-1.0', 'GPL-2.0', ...]
deprecatedIds.includes('BSD-3-Clause'); //=> false
deprecatedIds.includes('CC-BY-1.0'); //=> false
deprecatedIds.includes('GPL-3.0'); //=> true
The 'spdx' package offers functions to parse, validate, and compare SPDX expressions. It provides more comprehensive functionality compared to spdx-license-ids, which only lists license IDs.
This package is used to parse and validate SPDX license expressions. Unlike spdx-license-ids, which provides lists of license IDs, spdx-expression-parse can handle complex license expressions, including those with 'AND' and 'OR' operators.
The spdx-correct package is designed to correct invalid SPDX license IDs and expressions. It is more focused on error correction, while spdx-license-ids simply provides a list of valid and deprecated license IDs.
While spdx-license-ids provides SPDX license identifiers, license-checker is a tool that scans a project's dependencies for license information, which can then be compared against the list of licenses provided by spdx-license-ids.
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A list of SPDX license identifiers
The npm package spdx-license-ids receives a total of 34,585,347 weekly downloads. As such, spdx-license-ids popularity was classified as popular.
We found that spdx-license-ids demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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