feat: add license compliance check tool

.license-checker.js

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+'use strict';
+
+module.exports = {
+
+   permittedLicenses: [
+      'BSD-2-Clause',
+      'BSD-3-Clause',
+      'Python-2.0',
+      'BSD*',
+   ],
+
+   permittedPackages: [
+      'tslib@1.13.0'
+   ]
+
+};

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -3,6 +3,20 @@
 All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 See [our coding standards][commit-messages] for commit guidelines.
 
+## [2.2.0](https://github.com/silvermine/standardization/compare/v2.1.1...v2.2.0) (2023-07-20)
+
+
+### Features
+
+* Add custom rule 'indent-alignment' ([e9644c9](https://github.com/silvermine/standardization/commit/e9644c97d4092cd4f52f390c94ef0bb01de2056b))
+* install markdownlint-cli2 and add configuration ([523fb68](https://github.com/silvermine/standardization/commit/523fb6881bd355a1beeae32d5002a817a29906f1))
+
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* markdownlint ignore settings apply to subdirectories ([b419416](https://github.com/silvermine/standardization/commit/b4194164926f9e8c5f1222c3aab2135c2d891a53))
+
+
 ### [2.1.1](https://github.com/silvermine/standardization/compare/v2.1.0...v2.1.1) (2023-02-09)
 
 

README.md

@@ -158,6 +158,42 @@ possible that some processes in some projects could fail when the wrong version
 is enabled in the developer's environment. This helps eliminate one factor from the
 equation when troubleshooting.
 
+### License Compliance Checker Tool
+
+This project contains a tool to verify that the licenses used by libraries in our
+projects that contain NPM dependencies are among our list of accepted licenses. To
+view the list of accepted licenses, see the `ALLOWED_LICENSES` list in:
+[check-license-compliance.js](scripts/check-license-compliance.js)
+
+To use this tool, `@silvermine/standardization` must be installed in your project:
+
+`npm i -DE @silvermine/standardization`
+
+You should then be able to run the tool in a NPM script:
+
+```json
+{
+   "scripts": {
+      "check-license-compliance": "check-license-compliance"
+   }
+}
+```
+
+The tool also allows you to configure exceptions for license types using a configuration
+file. To configure these exceptions, add a file called `.license-checker.js` to the root
+of your project with the following contents:
+
+```cjs
+'use strict';
+
+module.exports = {
+
+   permittedLicenses: [ 'My-Custom-License' ]
+
+};
+
+```
+
 ### Executing ESLint
 
 When ESLint is needed for a project, add an `eslint` task to package.json, and execute it