Ask HN: How do you manage your OSS dependencies?

3 points by leipert ↗ HN
Assuming you are building a commercial product and one of your clients requires to have a report of all OSS dependencies you use. The report should contain all sources and license text of your runtime OSS dependencies.

How would you maintain such a report? Currently we build a solution for ourselves which is a bit clunky, takes a hand curated yaml file, downloads the sources and licenses and zips them. Would this be your solution as well?

PS: We are mainly talking about Java and Javascript dependencies (mvn/npm)

EDIT: The main quest is of course to stay away from OSS dependencies with GPL, as the client does not like them.

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