No way to prevent angular-cli from removing license info from minified JS

[DanKing123]

I believe this is a bug, although it's also possible that I've misunderstood the intended current behaviour and that this is in fact a feature request.

According to @IgorMinar in this comment:

It is customary to preserve licensing information in application bundles in the form of js comments marked with @license js doc and that's what Angular CLI does. We currently don't offer a way to omit the inclusion of these headers in the application bundles.

This is not the behaviour I am observing however. When I run ng build --prod using Angular CLI version 8.3.6, all third party license info is removed from the resulting minified JavaScript bundles and placed in 3rdpartylicenses.txt.

If I run the same command with --extractLicenses=false, the license info is still removed, but 3rdpartylicenses.txt is not created.

There doesn't seem to be any way to prevent Angular CLI from removing this license information from the JS that I am going to be serving in my application.

[vikerman]

@IgorMinar - FYI - Currently with extractLicenses=false we drop licences from both bundles and 3rdpartylicenses.txt

[vikerman]

We decided that the behavior when extractLicenses is set to false - is to leave the license headers in the JS bundle.

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