tangro/actions-license-check

A @tangro action to check whether a dependency uses an allowed license. We use license-checker to retrieve the license of the dependencies.

By default these licenses are allowed:

• MIT
• Apache-2.0
• ISC
• Custom: https://www.telerik.com/kendo-angular-ui/
• BSD

Important We only check production dependencies and only 0 direct production dependencies

Version

You can use a specific version of this action. The latest published version is v1.0.16. You can also use latest to always get the latest version.

Example job

license-check:
  runs-on: ubuntu-latest
  steps:
    - name: Checkout latest code
      uses: actions/checkout@v6
    - name: Use Node.js 16.x
      uses: actions/setup-node@v6.0.0
      with:
        node-version: 16.x
    - name: Authenticate with GitHub package registry
      run: echo "//npm.pkg.github.com/:_authToken=${{ secrets.ACCESS_TOKEN }}" >> ~/.npmrc
    - name: Run npm install
      run: npm install
    - name: Check licenses
      uses: tangro/actions-license-check@v1.0.16
      with:
        allowed-licenses: 'MIT; ISC; Apache-2.0; Custom: https://www.telerik.com/kendo-angular-ui/; Custom: https://www.telerik.com/kendo-react-ui/; BSD'
      env:
        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        GITHUB_CONTEXT: ${{ toJson(github) }}

Attention Do not forget to pass GITHUB_TOKEN and GITHUB_CONTEXT

Steps this example job will perform:

1. Check out the latest code
2. Use node v16
3. Run npm install - Sadly we need to install the dependencies to check the licenses
4. (this action) Run the license check

Usage

This action will run npx license-checker --production --json --onlyAllow=${allowedLicenses} to check the licenses.

This action will set a status to the commit to pending under the context Tangro CI/license-check. When it finishes successfully it will change the status to success and the license-check result will be displayed in the description. If the license check fails the status will set the status to failed.

The action will write the data to ./license-check/index.html. This file can be deployed to a static file server.

Using with a static file server

You can also publish the test results to a static file server. The action will write the results into dependencies/index.html.

You can publish the results with our custom deploy actions

license-check:
  runs-on: ubuntu-latest
  steps:
    - name: Checkout latest code
      uses: actions/checkout@v6
    - name: Use Node.js 16.x
      uses: actions/setup-node@v6.0.0
      with:
        node-version: 16.x
    - name: Authenticate with GitHub package registry
      run: echo "//npm.pkg.github.com/:_authToken=${{ secrets.ACCESS_TOKEN }}" >> ~/.npmrc
    - name: Run npm install
      run: npm install
    - name: Check licenses
      uses: tangro/actions-license-check@v1.0.16
      with:
        allowed-licenses: 'MIT; ISC; Apache-2.0; Custom: https://www.telerik.com/kendo-angular-ui/; Custom: https://www.telerik.com/kendo-react-ui/; BSD'
      env:
        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        GITHUB_CONTEXT: ${{ toJson(github) }}
    - name: Zip license check result
      if: always()
      run: |
        cd license-check
        zip --quiet --recurse-paths ../license-check.zip *
    - name: Deploy license check result
      if: always()
      uses: tangro/actions-deploy@v1.2.22
      with:
        context: auto
        zip-file: license-check.zip
        deploy-url: ${{secrets.DEPLOY_URL}}
        project: license-check
      env:
        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        GITHUB_CONTEXT: ${{ toJson(github) }}
        DEPLOY_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.DEPLOY_PASSWORD }}
        DEPLOY_USER: ${{ secrets.DEPLOY_USER }}

Arguments

You have to specify the allowed licenses with allowed-licenses�. They have to be separated by a semicolon.