license-checker VS npm-name

Compare license-checker vs npm-name and see what are their differences.

license-checker

Check NPM package licenses (by davglass)

npm-name

Check whether a package or organization name is available on npm (by sindresorhus)
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license-checker npm-name
10 1
1,567 166
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0.0 5.0
about 2 months ago about 2 months ago
JavaScript JavaScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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license-checker

Posts with mentions or reviews of license-checker. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-15.
  • Big Changes Ahead for Deno
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Aug 2022
    I don't care whether it's all in one file or in a dozen files, but I want all of that information to be available programmatically in a text file (unlike in a readme or on Github) in a standardized location in a project.

    In that respect, package.json is a strict win. Your lack of willingness to use `git blame` to see why you added a line, or lack of reasonable git comments, is not to be blamed on the file.

    Complexity is unavoidable. How could you write a tool like license-checker [1] for a Go-based project without having license information in a standardized location? Without the scripts section, how can you create a tool like husky [2] that automatically installs git hooks for a project? Every single part of package.json is there for a good reason; at best you could argue that putting some of it in other files would be aesthetically superior, but that's just bikeshedding.

    Complexity isn't de facto bad. Some complexity is required if you want a certain level of functionality to become available. Deno (and Go) are slowly accumulating that "cruft" as people realize that those functions are actually useful or even critical to a mature ecosystem.

    [1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/license-checker

    [2] https://www.npmjs.com/package/husky

  • Italian Courts Find Open Source Software Terms Enforceable
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Dec 2021
    Good doctors and drivers make mistakes, too, and they still face liability for those mistakes.

    I think that if your company is large enough, you should have employees, or pay someone, to mirror your dependencies and automate license checks. There are projects that do the latter already[1][2]. You can loop your lawyers in if licenses change to ensure you don't violate them. If (A)GPL code still ships in proprietary products, that's a process problem that the company needs to solve.

    [1] https://github.com/dhatim/python-license-check

    [2] https://github.com/davglass/license-checker

  • Node.js Packages and Resources
    106 projects | dev.to | 6 Sep 2021
    license-checker - Check licenses of your app's dependencies.
  • Home Screen Shortcuts in React Native (with Expo)
    4 projects | dev.to | 19 Aug 2021
    If you don't know what licenses you're currently using, I suggest the license-checker NPM tool.
  • How do I explain the concept of open source software to my boss?
    2 projects | /r/opensource | 28 May 2021
    Also, your IT dept is not entirely without concern here, you should be ensuring that you're not violating any open source licenses in your project, and be using something like https://www.npmjs.com/package/license-checker or an equivalent license checking service in your project language to ensure that everything is kosher

npm-name

Posts with mentions or reviews of npm-name. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-06.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing license-checker and npm-name you can also consider the following projects:

python-license-check - Check python packages from requirement.txt and report issues

npm-home - Open the npm page, Yarn page, or GitHub repo of a package

alex - Catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing

wallpaper - Manage the desktop wallpaper

np - A better `npm publish`

wifi-password - Get current wifi password

Babel (Formerly 6to5) - 🐠 Babel is a compiler for writing next generation JavaScript.

ignite - Infinite Red's battle-tested React Native project boilerplate, along with a CLI, component/model generators, and more!

tty-table - Terminal table for Windows, Linux, and MacOS. Written in nodejs. Also works in browser console. Word wrap, padding, alignment, colors, Asian character support, per-column callbacks, and you can pass rows as objects or arrays. Backwards compatible with Automattic/cli-table.

http-server - a simple zero-configuration command-line http server

fkill - Fabulously kill processes. Cross-platform.

Live Server - A simple development http server with live reload capability.