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@opengovsg/credits-generator

v1.0.7

Published

Takes in package.json and outputs a CREDITS.md file

Downloads

187

Readme

credits-generator

Takes in package.json and outputs a CREDITS.md file attributing the authors of your dependencies

Usage

  1. npx @opengovsg/credits-generator from your node project
  2. CREDITS.md generated!

An example is in this project's own package.json and CREDITS.md.

Motivation

Use of open-source software is often governed by the terms of their licenses. Such terms often include the obligation to provide some form of acknowledgement of use, along with the full text of the license. This practice is strongly recommended at several organisations, including the Government Technology Agency of Singapore.

This tool was hence created to make it convenient to attribute authors of dependencies in the node.js projects that we publish. As beneficiaries of open-source software, we want to provide due recognition to those authors, and hope that others would do so too.

More information on this topic can be found in this excellent article found at nexB

Limitations

Currently, this tool is only capable of retrieving LICENSE files from GitHub repositories. This may be problematic for dependencies hosted elsewhere, or license files with non-standard names.

Contributing

We welcome contributions to code open-sourced by the Government Technology Agency of Singapore. All contributors will be asked to sign a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) in order to ensure that everybody is free to use their contributions.