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@thboop thboop commented Aug 12, 2020

GitHub has a tool called licensed which helps us to verify that the node modules we are using are appropriately licensed for what we are using them for. It also helps to verify that the license a node module claims to be under matches the license it.

If you were previously checking in a license in the dist file, this can replace that flow.

This PR adds:

  • A workflow to check licenses on pull requests and pushes to the main branch
  • A licensed.yml file used to configure licensed
  • A number of files into the .licenses directory which contain our dependencies and their appropriate licenses

How does this impact me?

  • You may need to locally install licensed and run licensed cache to update the dependency cache if you install a new production dependency.
    • If licensed cache is unable to determine the dependency, you may need to modify the cache file yourself to put the correct license.
  • You should still verify the dependency, licensed in a tool to help, but is not a substitute for human review of dependencies
  • Currently, this PR only targets production dependencies, dev dependencies are not included.

@thboop thboop marked this pull request as ready for review August 26, 2020 15:30
@konradpabjan konradpabjan merged commit 11790a2 into actions:main Sep 23, 2020
tdfacer pushed a commit to ifit/setup-java that referenced this pull request Oct 7, 2025
* Add Licensed workflow and config files

* Manually validate dependencies

* Ignore Generated Files in Git PR's

* update contributing.md
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