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spdx-license-ids
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Package description
The spdx-license-ids package provides a list of SPDX license identifiers. SPDX (Software Package Data Exchange) is a standard format for communicating the licensing information of software packages. This package is useful for validating license identifiers, checking if a license ID is deprecated, and listing all valid SPDX license IDs.
List of all SPDX license IDs
This feature provides an array of all non-deprecated SPDX license identifiers. You can use this list to validate or display available licenses.
const spdxLicenseIds = require('spdx-license-ids');
console.log(spdxLicenseIds);
List of deprecated SPDX license IDs
This feature provides an array of deprecated SPDX license identifiers. It is useful for checking if a license ID is no longer valid according to the SPDX specification.
const spdxLicenseIdsDeprecated = require('spdx-license-ids/deprecated');
console.log(spdxLicenseIdsDeprecated);
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.
Readme
A list of SPDX license identifiers
Download JSON directly, or use npm:
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
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A list of SPDX license identifiers
The npm package spdx-license-ids receives a total of 20,968,668 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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