licence

Licence Manager

A TypeScript library to list and retrieve open-source license texts.

Features

• List Supported Licenses: Get an array of all supported open-source licenses.
• Retrieve License Texts: Fetch the full text of a specific license by its name.
• Error Handling: Gracefully handle unsupported license names with clear error messages.

Usage

Importing the Library

Import the library into your TypeScript or JavaScript project as follows:

import { listLicenses, getLicenseText } from 'licence';

Listing All Supported Licenses

Use the listLicenses function to get an array of all supported licenses:

const licenses = listLicenses();
console.log(licenses);
// Output: ['MIT', 'Apache-2.0', 'GPL-3.0', ...]

Retrieving a License Text

Use the getLicenseText function to fetch the full text of a specific license:

try {
  const mitLicenseText = getLicenseText('MIT');
  console.log(mitLicenseText);
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error.message);
}

Supported Licenses

The following open-source licenses are supported by this library:

• MIT
• Apache-2.0
• GPL-3.0
• BSD-2-Clause
• BSD-3-Clause
• ISC
• Unlicense
• MPL-2.0
• LGPL-3.0
• AGPL-3.0