Mocha: browser-stdout has an invalid license, which transitively makes mocha a problematic dependency

[honzajavorek]

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Description

mocha depends on the browser-stdout package, which is problematic, as it does not have proper licensing. It only mentions ICS in the package.json, but that's not satisfactory even by the license itself - see https://github.com/kumavis/browser-stdout/issues/3. The maintainer doesn't seem to be attentive to this problem - https://github.com/kumavis/browser-stdout/pull/4 This transitively makes mocha a problematic dependency as well.

Steps to Reproduce

Inspect the mocha dependency tree for incorrectly licensed packages. Every package should have a license name, full license text, and a copyright notice with a copyright holder.

Expected behavior: [What you expect to happen]

The mocha package depends only on packages with correct licensing.

Actual behavior: [What actually happens]

The browser-stdout package is in the dependency tree as a direct 1st level dependency, and it is not properly licensed. Just license name, but no full license text, no copyright notice with a copyright holder.

Reproduces how often: [What percentage of the time does it reproduce?]

100%

Versions

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[Bamieh]

@honzajavorek thanks for raising this issue. I'll follow up on this by friday if no one did until then.

[honzajavorek]

@Bamieh Is there a way I can help?

[Bamieh]

@honzajavorek I reached out to Aaron on twitter. Hopefully he will be kind enough to give some time to merge the PR and solve this issue. Let's wait and see!

[kumavis]

so sorry 😿
fixed in [email protected]