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What I'm interested in — most open source licenses such as MIT require that a copyright notice is preserved for each dependency, direct or transitive. Many licenses even require that such copyright notices for all dependencies are shown in an about menu in the software.

How do you do that with node.js projects? Do you just have an about screen with 15'000 licenses and copyright attributions in your software? Do you just violate the license?

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For Node.js projects, the MIT clause should be covered by simply having the entire package installed, provided the author actually put the license file in the package.

However when using a bundler; you are potentially violating the licenses of a bunch of packages.

It also becomes an issue once you’re building a web application, as you’ll have to present it in the UI.

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