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feature idea: Dependency License Reporter
This is not a fully-formed idea, but leaving here to start a discussion. If pkgnet is supposed to help answer the question "should I add / remove this dependency?", I think it would be valuable to try to implement a DependencyLicenseReporter which lists the licenses of packages in your dependency tree.
Inspired by pip-licenses.
@jameslamb, what about, as a start, adding licenses as an additional column to the main data.table?
@jameslamb, what about, as a start, adding licenses as an additional column to the main data.table?
That's a good idea, I'm cool with that. I won't be able to contribute it for a while though. Shall I make a separate issue from this one listing that as a proposed feature?
By the way that problem can get REALLY difficult really fast (read this code) , to the extent that we should probably look into existing solutions or create our own outside of the pkgnet project.