⚪ ️5.5 Stay away from legal issues using license and plagiarism check
:white_check_mark: Do: Licensing and plagiarism issues are probably not your main concern right now, but why not tick this box as well in 10 minutes? A bunch of npm packages like license check and plagiarism check (commercial with free plan) can be easily baked into your CI pipeline and inspect for sorrows like dependencies with restrictive licenses or code that was copy-pasted from Stack Overflow and apparently violates some copyrights
❌ Otherwise: Unintentionally, developers might use packages with inappropriate licenses or copy paste commercial code and run into legal issues
✏ Code Examples
:clap: Doing It Right Example:
# install license-checker in your CI environment or also locally
npm install -g license-checker
# ask it to scan all licenses and fail with exit code other than 0 if it found unauthorized license. The CI system should catch this failure and stop the build
license-checker --summary --failOn BSD