Include LICENSE files from the bundled packages

[abdala]

Feature request

Fist of all, thank you for your amazing work. Second, if that is something you would like to have, I would love to help.

When we use node_modules (most of the times) the LICENSE file is included there, but when you bundle everything in one file all the LICENSES are gone.

I was thinking that maybe that would be a nice feature, include all LICENSE files from the bundled devDependencies

Motivations

Follow the licenses requirement about the code included in your package

Alternatives

No response

Additional context

No response

Bugs are expected to be fixed by those affected by it

• [X] I'm interested in working on this issue

Compensating engineering work financially will speed up resolution

• [ ] I'm willing to offer financial support

[privatenumber]

Great idea!

I think we can add a --license flag to enable this.

I haven't really looked into this, but here are some good references:

• https://www.npmjs.com/package/rollup-plugin-license
• https://github.com/vitejs/vite/blob/main/packages/vite/rollupLicensePlugin.ts

[prisis]

If you like you could take a look on https://github.com/visulima/packem/blob/main/packages/packem/src/rollup/plugins/license.ts

It does what you would like to have, it use marker in the file that you provide as a licence