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feat(local): generate third-party notices at build time - #2185
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Collect licence notices for the npm trees, the Python sidecars, the staged native runtimes and the bundled model packs, merge them into THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.json and .txt, and ship them as resources/notices. The merge fails the build when a dependency has no licence text and the reviewed allowlist gives no reason. Refs MODSetter#1941
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- Line 17: Update interpreter_notice to locate CPython’s license in the
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…party-notices # Conflicts: # docs/architecture/packaging.md
…mes and CPython A NOTICE file ships as attribution but no longer passes the missing-text gate alone. Every licence file a staged native runtime lists must hold text. CPython's LICENSE.txt is also looked for in the installation root, where uv's Windows Python keeps it. buffers 0.1.1 ships the MIT text its author's repository later declared, recorded with its source in reviewed-texts.json, instead of an allowlist entry.
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separate notice field; keep licence files in text. Ensure python_notices emits
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Thanks @Cedric921. The Windows licence lookup is fixed, and checked on a Windows python.org 3.12. Two decisions from our side, and one thing #2246 changes. 1. Write the notices to
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…s licence on Windows - ship the merged notices from electron/licenses as resources/licenses - record buffers' MIT source (Debian, substack/node-buffers@1b745ee) and holder - list llamacpp/LICENSE-LLVM-OpenMP as a Windows-only native licence - order the notices by code unit, not by locale - read licence and third-party notice files from a Python package's own folder
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Thanks. Done in 813fec6, on top of a merge of
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Not done here: the MSVC runtime DLLs beside audio.cpp and Tests: Electron 229 passed, typecheck clean. Backend scripts 127 passed, ruff clean. |
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What
PR 1 of the plan on #1941. The build now generates third-party notices for everything the installer ships and packages them under
resources/notices. Showing them in Settings › About is PR 2.electron/scripts/notices/npm.mjsrunspnpm licenses list --json --prodinfrontend/andelectron/and reads each package's licence files.backend/scripts/write_python_notices.pytakes the shipped set fromuv export --frozen --no-dev, then readsimportlib.metadataand each distribution's licence files. It adds CPython and PyInstaller, whose bootloader is in both frozen binaries.electron/scripts/notices/native.mjstakes the licence files the stage scripts already place: llama.cpp, sd.cpp, audio.cpp, eSpeak NG (ESPEAK_VERSIONis now inaudiocpp/pins.mjs), opencode and ripgrep, plus Electron, which points toLICENSES.chromium.html. A runtime that isn't staged is reported and left out.backend/scripts/write_model_notices.pylists the pinned packs (BGE, the bundled voice, Docling and RapidOCR) by licence id, noting that no text ships for them.notices/merge.mjswritesTHIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.json(name, version, tree, licence id, text) and a.txt.allowed-without-text.jsonwith a reason.build:noticesruns indistand inrelease-local.ymlafter every staging step and before "Package installer", so a new dependency appears without anyone remembering to add it.electron-builder.ymlpackagesnotices/THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.*.No new dependency, and no change to
external-url.ts.Why
#1941: the installer ships hundreds of other people's work, and most of those licences require the notice to travel with the binary.
Fixes
Refs #1941.
about.md's Known gaps line is narrowed to "not shown in the app yet", which PR 2 closes.packaging.mdgains the row and a Third-party notices section.How to test
Electron: 170 passed, 15 of them new. They cover the merge gate failing on missing text and passing with the allowlist, the native collector on a temp folder, and npm parsing.
Backend: 104 passed, 12 of them new. They cover the shipped-set filter and the collector against fake distributions.
End to end on macOS, with llama.cpp and audio.cpp staged: 930 entries.
sd.cpp, opencode and ripgrep weren't staged, so they were reported and left out.
For the maintainer
allowed-without-text.jsonlists the packages whose published artefact carries no licence text, each with a reason.@hugeicons/core-free-icons,binary,chainsaw,isarray,react-remove-scroll-bar,rehype-katex,remark-math,use-composed-ref,boolbase,saxes,buffers,lazy-val, and the platform builds of@napi-rs/canvasand@rolldown/binding.antlr4-python3-runtime,chonkie-core,docling,flatbuffers,latex2mathml,rapidocr,sqlite-vec,tokenizers,tokie.buffers(frontend, via exceljs → unzipper → binary) declares no licence at all. It is allowlisted as "needs a maintainer's decision".High-level PR Summary
This PR implements automated generation of third-party license notices at build time for the desktop installer. It collects license information from all dependencies across npm (frontend and electron trees), Python packages, native binaries (llama.cpp, sd.cpp, audio.cpp, eSpeak NG, opencode, ripgrep, Electron), and bundled model packs (BGE embeddings, voice models, Docling, RapidOCR). Each ecosystem has a dedicated collector script that writes a JSON fragment, which are then merged into
resources/notices/THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.jsonand.txtfiles that ship with the installer. The build fails if any npm, Python, or native dependency lacks license text unless explicitly allowlisted with a reviewed reason inallowed-without-text.json. This ensures legal compliance by ensuring license notices travel with the binary as required by most open-source licenses.⏱️ Estimated Review Time: 15-30 minutes
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