react-native-oss-license

react-native-oss-license is license list generator for React Native App(iOS & Android).
It generates license lists of npm libraries for iOS, Android.
This CLI tool allow you to easily generate content of oss-license.

Installation

npm i -g react-native-oss-license

Sample App

Usage

iOS

Recommended to use with LicensePlist that scan cocoaopds, carthage.

LicensePlist

react-native-oss-license generate plist that you can locate to Settings.bundle.
Run react-native-oss-license --format settings-bundle when your are in the directory that contains package.json You can merge output react-native-oss-license and LicensePlist.

Android

It is assumed to be used with other tools.

LicenseToolsPlugin

License Tools Plugin for Android is Gradle plugin to check library licenses and generate license pages.
Run react-native-oss-license --format license-tools-plugin. It generate license list in YAML format.
react-native-oss-license generate same format content. You can merge results.

AboutLibraries(under v8.9.4)

AboutLibraries provides fragment/activity that show license list.
react-native-oss-license generate string resource xml AboutLibraries use.
Run react-native-oss-license --format about-libraries, output strings.xml that you can put into res/values/.
and output stdout withLibraries("package_name_A", "package_name_B" ...) that pass to method withLibraries.

AboutLibraries(over v10.0.0)

AboutLibraries provides Jetpack Compose that show license list.
react-native-oss-license generate JSON files AboutLibraries use.
Run react-native-oss-license --format about-libraries-json, output .json that you can put into config.
config/libraries contains libraries json files. config/licenses contains licenses json files. You can specify any other directory instead of config with --output-path option.

CLI

> cd {project-root}
> react-native-oss-license --help
Usage: react-native-oss-license [options]

Options:
  -f, --format <format>       output format. options:[settings-bundle,license-tools-plugin,about-libraries, about-libraries-json]
  --dev                       include devDependencies (default: false)
  --depth <depth>             dependencies depth (default: null)
  --output-path <outputPath>  specify path where output file
  --json                      output json to stdout (default: false)
  --add-version-number        write library version number (default: false)
  --only-direct-dependency    output only dependencies you write packages.json. (default: false)
  --skip-not-required         skip licenses those not require copyright notice (default: false)
  --bundle-id <bundleId>      unique id of your app.  It is used for output such as "plist" filename, etc. (default: null)
  --uses-plugin               whether AboutLibraries android plugin is used on native side as well (default: false)
  --version                   show current version
  -h, --help                  output usage information

> react-native-oss-license --format settings-bundle
output settings-bundle format to 'ios/com.k-tomoyasu.react-native-oss-license.Output'