Overview

This document aims to provide a guide for users upgrading from v1 to v2. Since this library is in an early stage, we might implement some breaking changes in order to make it more convenient to use, based on users' feedback. Apologies in advance for the possible inconvenience.

:bomb: Breaking changes

failOn option no longer accepts RegExp

On @guidesmiths/license-checker you could provide regular expresions

npx @guidesmiths/license-checker --failOn /GPL/

That is no longer accepted in @onebeyond/license-checker

with @onebeyond/license-checker you can use

npx @onebeyond/license-checker --failOn AGPL-1.0-or-later GPL-1.0-or-later

:exclamation: Licenses have to be valid SPDX

:sparkles: Other changes

check command to validate valid SPDX licenses

npx @onebeyond/license-checker check MIT

will output:

License MIT is SPDX compliant

while

npx @onebeyond/license-checker check NOTSPDX

will output:

Error: License "NOTSPDX" is not SPDX compliant. Please visit https://spdx.org/licenses/ for the full list

check if a license is SPDX compliant. It is intended to be used as a standalone command. More info at https://spdx.org

Double license support

if a package accepts LISENCE1 or LISENCE2 and check for LISENCE1, it will succeed