Fetch licences types and copies from all dependencies (and their dependencies) from your project.
Open Source & legal team and a massive number of manual work...
npm install licenses-list-generator --save-devimport licensesList from 'licenses-list-generator';
const licenses = licensesList();Function returns array of objects with properties:
| name | type | description |
|---|---|---|
| name | string | dependency name (from package.json) |
| path | string | path to dependency, starting from root |
| text | string | license text (see below) |
| type | string | license type (from package.json) |
| version | string | module version (from package.json) |
null in all cases if not found.
Function returns license information to module/project from which it is called as well.
It is a recursive walk through dependencies from package.json (to find dependencies and all its sub-dependencies). License text comes from LICENSE or LICENCE or LICENSE.md or LICENSE.txt or LICENSE.markdown file. Other information, like license type, name or version, comes from package.json file.
Returned array contains information related project dependencies ONLY. NOT devDependencies.