milosrasic / license-drama-check

Check node_modules for \"open source\" licenses altered to deny license to certain entities

license-drama-check

A simple Node.js package to check your dependencies for any open source license shenanigans that deny license to certain entities.

Installation

yarn add license-drama-check

or

npm install license-drama-check

Usage

The package can be user either in CLI or programatically, as a function.

After installing the package, the CLI command is:

license-drama-check

If your package manager doesn't set the command up properly, you can always run it with

./node_modules/license-drama-check/run.js

To use programatically, import the module, which is a function and call it:

const check = require('license-drama-check');

const result = check();

The return value is true if a problem is found or false if no problems are found.

If you're using shelljs or a similar package to change cwd in your script, make sure to call the function while cwd is the root of your project.

Contributions

PRs to make the script smarter or simply cover any changes in wording in the affected projects are greatly appreciated.

Disclaimer

The purpose of this package is to detect any potentially harmful open source license tampering. Any similarities with a case of open source license drama, past, present or future, may or may not be intentional.