Missing licenses for npm packages

[stdedos]

Dependencies that need approval:
acorn-import-assertions, 1.9.0, unknown
cookie-signature, 1.0.6, unknown
import-in-the-middle, 1.4.1, unknown
tr46, 0.0.3, unknown
There are unapproved licenses. Run the license finder locally in your repository:

e.g https://github.com/xtuc/acorn-import-attributes/blob/main/package.json#L23 has proper linkage for licenses, I don't understand what would be the issue.

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[stdedos]

This is also a regression from 6.15.0, where only

Dependencies that need approval:
acorn-import-assertions, 1.9.0, unknown
There are unapproved licenses. Run the license finder locally in your repository:

is an issue (and also the Dependencies that need approval: is not colored in v7, which is nice to tell the interesting text apart from the wall of CI text)

[xtreme-shane-lattanzio]

Hey @stdedos Thanks for raising this. At the beginning of the year, we did have an update to support later versions of NPM. I wonder if something was missed. FYI the PR is here: #963. Which npm version was this in? The parsing may just need a tweak.

[stdedos]

$ npm -v
9.6.7

In npm list --json --long --all I've found no "relevant output" for acorn-import-assertions (even though it exists in https://github.com/xtuc/acorn-import-attributes/blob/main/package.json) - but the others (I tried only cookie-signature) appear normally.

Instead of "playing around", would you consider testing it? Just add

@opentelemetry/[email protected] (or @opentelemetry/[email protected]?)
[email protected]
@azure/[email protected]
@azure/[email protected]

as dependencies, and see what the test leads you with.

I'd do it myself, but I have no ruby/testbed to DIY

[stdedos]

@xtreme-shane-lattanzio (as you don't have Discussions active):

When is https://github.com/pivotal/LicenseFinder planning to make a release?
v7.1.0...master is already growing a lot.

"Maybe" there is something on master that would help (or make things worse).

Your latest release https://github.com/pivotal/LicenseFinder/releases/tag/v7.1.0 is coming up on 9mo old 😕

[henriksjostrom]

I have the same issue for these libraries. Is license finder not checking the package json license and only going for the LICENSE file?

As acorn-import-assertions doesnt have a LICENSE file, just a MIT license in package.json