npm package: @quantco/pnpm-licenses
Description: Generate third party license disclaimers in pnpm-based projects
Author: Janina Wibker
Latest version: 2.2.4-0

# pnpm-licenses

![npm](https://img.shields.io/npm/v/@quantco/pnpm-licenses?color=%23000000)

This is a CLI tool for generating lists of licenses for all dependencies of a project using [pnpm](https://pnpm.io).

# Usage

Either install `pnpm-licenses` globally or use `npx @quantco/pnpm-licenses` to run it.

```
usage: pnpm-licenses [command] [options]

commands:
  list [options]                 List all dependencies and their licenses

    --prod, -p                   Only consider production dependencies
    --json-input                 Read input from stdin as json, instead of calling pnpm ourselves
    --json-input-file, -i        Read input from a (json) file, instead of calling pnpm ourselves or reading from stdin
    --output-file, -o            Output to a file instead of stdout
    --filter="<json object>"     Filter out dependencies via glob patterns.
                                 Example: --filter='["@quantco/*", "@pnpm/*"]'
                                          --filter='["**", "!@quantco/*", "!@pnpm/*"]' (inverted match)

    --help                       Get help for the list command


  generate-disclaimer [options]  Generate a disclaimer for all dependencies

    --prod, -p                   Only consider production dependencies
    --json-input                 Read input from stdin as json, instead of calling pnpm ourselves
    --json-input-file, -i        Read input from a (json) file, instead of calling pnpm ourselves or reading from stdin
    --output-file, -o            Output to a file instead of stdout
    --filter="<json object>"     Filter out dependencies via glob patterns.
                                 Example: --filter='["@quantco/*", "@pnpm/*"]'
                                          --filter='["**", "!@quantco/*", "!@pnpm/*"]' (inverted match)

    --help                       Get help for the generate-disclaimer command

  version                        Print the version number (also available as --version)
  help                           Print this help message (also available as --help)
```

# Commands

There are two major commands available: `list` and `generate-disclaimer`

## List command

This lists the dependencies of a project and their licenses (including text!).

Note that the license texts are sometimes extracted or inferred using all kinds of metadata, there might not be a matching `LICENSE` file on disk.

This command can be used to implement your own disclaimer generation in case you want some slightly different behavior than `generate-disclaimer` gives you.

Using `--filter` (or `-f`) you can filter out dependencies via glob patterns. See [multimatch - Globbing patterns](https://github.com/sindresorhus/multimatch#globbing-patterns) for a description of the syntax.
If you'd like to invert the pattern use the following: `["**", "!@quantco/*", "!@pnpm/*"]` (i.e. for a given list of patterns called `patterns` use `['**', ...patterns.map(p => '!' + p)]` formatted as JSON).

### Examples

```bash
npx @quantco/pnpm-licenses list --prod --output-file=output.json
npx @quantco/pnpm-licenses list --prod --output-file=output.json --filter='["@quantco/*", "@pnpm/*"]'
pnpm licenses list --prod --json | npx @quantco/pnpm-licenses list --json-input
npx @quantco/pnpm-licenses list --json-input-file=dependencies.json
```

### Output

You'll receive a giant array of objects, each representing a dependency:

```ts
type Dependency = {
    name: string // from package.json
    version: string // from package.json
    path: string // file path to directory of dependency on disk
    license: string // from package.json
    author?: string | undefined // from package.json
    homepage?: string | undefined // from package.json
    description?: string | undefined // from package.json
    additionalText?: string | undefined // set for dependencies with "public domain like" licences as a replacement for "Copyright (c) <author>"
    licenseText: string | undefined // license text
}
```

> Note that if multiple versions of a package are installed the output will contain the same package multiple times with differing versions (and paths)

### Options

```
--prod, -p                   Only consider production dependencies
--json-input                 Read input from stdin as json, instead of calling pnpm ourselves
--json-input-file, -i        Read input from a (json) file, instead of calling pnpm ourselves or reading from stdin
--output-file, -o            Output to a file instead of stdout
--filter, -f                 Filter out dependencies via glob patterns.
```


## Generate Disclaimer command

This is the main command that you'll probably want to use.
It generates a single large disclaimer for all third-party licenses you have in your pnpm project.

Using `--filter` (or `-f`) you can filter out dependencies via glob patterns. See [multimatch - Globbing patterns](https://github.com/sindresorhus/multimatch#globbing-patterns) for a description of the syntax.
If you'd like to invert the pattern use the following: `["**", "!@quantco/*", "!@pnpm/*"]` (i.e. for a given list of patterns called `patterns` use `['**', ...patterns.map(p => '!' + p)]` formatted as JSON).

The file will look as follows:

```
THE FOLLOWING SETS FORTH ATTRIBUTION NOTICES FOR THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE THAT MAY BE CONTAINED IN PORTIONS OF THIS PRODUCT

The following software may be included in this product: <package name> (<package version>)
This software contains the following license and notice below:

MIT License

Copyright (c) <author>

<actual license text>

---

The following software may be included in this product: <package name> (<package version>)
This software contains the following license and notice below:

...
```

### Examples

```bash
pnpm licenses list --json --prod | npx @quantco/pnpm-licenses generate-disclaimer --json-input --output-file=third-party-licenses.txt
npx @quantco/pnpm-licenses generate-disclaimer --prod --output-file=third-party-licenses.txt
npx @quantco/pnpm-licenses generate-disclaimer --prod --filter='["@quantco/*", "@pnpm/*"]'
```

### Options

```
--prod, -p                   Only consider production dependencies
--json-input                 Read input from stdin as json, instead of calling pnpm ourselves
--json-input-file, -i        Read input from a (json) file, instead of calling pnpm ourselves or reading from stdin
--output-file, -o            Output to a file instead of stdout
--filter, -f                 Filter out dependencies via glob patterns.
```


# API

You can also use this as part of your own library using the programmatic api.

```ts
import {
  generateDisclaimer,
  getDependencies,
  getLicenseText,
  resolveLicensesBestEffort
} from '@quantco/pnpm-licenses/dist/api'
import type { PnpmDependency, PnpmDependencyResolvedLicenseText } from '@quantco/pnpm-licenses/dist/api'
```

Have a look at the type definitions for more details.

# Bugs and feature requests

This package is in the very early stages of development.
If you find any bugs or have any feature requests, please open an issue on [GitHub](https://github.com/Quantco/pnpm-licenses/issues).