README.md

Getting the list of licenses from SPDX

By triggering the GitHub Action

The project has a GitHub Action configured to get the list of licenses. This way, you don't have to install anything on your own machine. Just go to https://github.com/jspaaks/get-spdx-licenses/actions/workflows/get-spdx-licenses.yml, click Run workflow, and the workflow should start after a few seconds delay. Wait till it finished and click to see the terminal output. There should be an item labeled Get the list of licenses, print it here which contains the list of licenses for the Citation File Format's jsonschema schema.

By running the script locally

cd <to this directory>

# install the project's dependencies
npm install

# compile the code from src/ into build/ (as per the configuration from ./tsconfig.json)
npm run build

# run the script, let jq do the pretty print
npm run get-licenses | tail -n -1 | jq --indent 4 '.'

Example output

(some output omitted for brevity)

{
    "$comment": "SPDX license list; releaseDate=2021-05-14; source=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spdx/license-list-data/master/json/licenses.json",
    "enum": [
        "0BSD",
        "AAL",
        "ADSL",
        "AFL-1.1",
        "AFL-1.2",
        "AFL-2.0",
        "AFL-2.1",
        "AFL-3.0",
        "AGPL-1.0",
        "AGPL-1.0-only",
        "AGPL-1.0-or-later",
        "AGPL-3.0",
        "AGPL-3.0-only",
        "AGPL-3.0-or-later",

        "...",

        "psutils",
        "wxWindows",
        "xinetd",
        "xpp",
        "zlib-acknowledgement"
    ],
    "type": "string"
}