require-license

💼 This rule is enabled in the following configs: ✔️ legacy-recommended, ✅ recommended, 📦 recommended-publishable.

This rule checks for the existence of the "license" property in a package.json, and reports a violation if it doesn't exist.

Example of incorrect code for this rule:

{
	"name": "my-package",
	"version": "13.0.0"
}

Example of correct code for this rule:

{
	"name": "my-package",
	"license": "MIT",
	"version": "13.0.0"
}

Options

Name	Description	Type	Default
`ignorePrivate`	Determines if this rule should be enforced when the package's `private` property is `true`.	Boolean	`true`

{
	"package-json/require-license": [
		"error",
		{
			"ignorePrivate": true
		}
	]
}

Example of incorrect code for this rule with the { "ignorePrivate": false } option:

{
	"private": true
}

Example of correct code for this rule with the { "ignorePrivate": false } option:

{
	"private": true,
	"license": "MIT"
}

Example of incorrect code for this rule with the { "ignorePrivate": true } option:

{
	"private": false
}

{}

Example of correct code for this rule with the { "ignorePrivate": true } option:

{
	"private": true
}