A browser extension to help you detect unpermissive licenses.

Documentation

• About
• Installation
• Features ( Repository Alertbar, Enhanced Pins, Request Missing License )
• Development
• Thanks
• Legal Stuff

Details for Contributors

Some high level info is given here.

Develop using npm run watch and by adding / refreshing the dist folder as unpacked extension in the developer mode of chrome://extension (or similar on edge / firefox).

Project Structure

The following are the most relevant folders in this repository. Folders not listed here are hopefully self-explanatory.

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├── public                  # Static resources
├── browser_control         # E2E tests and automated image generation for docs. Uses python & selenium
├── dist                    # The extension (built using `npm run build`) ends up here.
├── src                     # Source Files 
│   ├── __codegen__         # Code for static license info generation (run `npm run gen-licenses`)
│   ├── __gen__             # License info generated by __codegen__. Don't touch, will be overridden!
│   ├── __tests__           # Unit tests (JEST) for the few logical components of the extension
│   ├── github              # Any code specific to github repositories
│   └── utils               # Platform-independent utilities (e.g. caching, ignore-logic)
└── ...

Automated Stuff

• License Generation
  Once a week, the CI clones the choosealicense.com sources and uses it to re-generate our license information (src/__gen__/licenses.json). Changes are submitted through a PR.
  The script can be run manually as npm run gen-licenses.

• Documentation Image Capturing
  To keep the images in our docs up to date with recent style changes of github.com, they are re-generated once a week, or after a push to main, and submitted through a PR.
  The script can be run manually by setting up the selenium environment (cd browser_control, creating and activating a python venv and runing pip install -r requirements.txt) and by then running python gen_docs_images.py
  ^{_{Note: Views which require a login, such as the open-issue image, are not yet automatically generated. I have to figure our a way around the 'new device email confirmation' to log into github through selenium.}}

• E2E tests
  Upon every push to main, and for every PR, and daily on main (to check for github-induced regressions) selenium E2E tests are executed.
  They can be run manually by setting up the selenium environment as defined above and then run pytest . in the browser_control folder.

• Unit tests
  There's not many unit tests yet (that's still a big todo 😄), but the few which are there are run on PRs and pushed to main.
  To run them manually, npm run test does the trick.

• Release Upon tagging a commit, a zip of the dist folder, unpacked.zip is added to the corresponding github release.