Change API to satisfies(SPDX Expression, Array of Approved Licenses)#17
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The design decision to take the argument expressing acceptable license policy as another SPDX expression has repeatedly confused people. Meanwhile, the primary use case for this package is to check some SPDX license expression for a package against a list of approved licenses. I believe we can better serve that use case and make this package easier to maintain by taking a list of approved licenses instead of a second SPDX expression.
ES6 is pretty old now, but we try to support old Node.js versions.
Current Tape does not support some of the very old versions we do.
Generating README.md is fine for npmjs.com, but not so much for GitHub, where README.md is also the "welcome page" to the package.
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The design decision to take the argument expressing acceptable license policy as another SPDX expression has repeatedly confused people. It's far from clear how an algorithm should go about comparing AND and OR expressions to other AND and OR expressions. Meanwhile, the primary use case for this package is to check some SPDX license expression for a package against a list of approved licenses.
I believe we can better serve that use case and make this package easier to maintain by taking a list of approved licenses instead of a second SPDX expression.