{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/npm/npm/issues/8773","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/npm/npm/issues/8773/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/npm/npm/issues/8773/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/npm/npm/issues/8773/events","html_url":"https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/8773","id":92190415,"number":8773,"title":"what SPDX license should I use for private modules?","user":{"login":"mcollina","id":52195,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/52195?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/mcollina","html_url":"https://github.com/mcollina","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mcollina/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mcollina/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mcollina/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mcollina/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mcollina/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mcollina/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mcollina/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mcollina/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mcollina/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/npm/npm/labels/support","name":"support","color":"FF91AF"}],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":7,"created_at":"2015-06-30T20:22:38Z","updated_at":"2015-08-07T15:11:57Z","closed_at":"2015-07-01T02:32:26Z","body":"NPM now forbids the user to put non-spdx licenses in the license field during npm init, and complain thereafter if you have something weird in there. However, NPM is used also for private modules. What SPDX code should we put in? I do not want to reference ISC or MIT in closed-source modules.\r\n\r\nAnother solution is to ask \"is this module private?\" and do not prompt at all for a license, with the assumption that a private module does not require a license."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/npm/npm/issues/comments/128726684","html_url":"https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/8773#issuecomment-128726684","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/npm/npm/issues/8773","id":128726684,"user":{"login":"cchamberlain","id":424694,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/424694?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/cchamberlain","html_url":"https://github.com/cchamberlain","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cchamberlain/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cchamberlain/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cchamberlain/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cchamberlain/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cchamberlain/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cchamberlain/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cchamberlain/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cchamberlain/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cchamberlain/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-08-07T15:11:57Z","updated_at":"2015-08-07T15:11:57Z","body":"@tianp - the private field should be set to true only if you don't want the package to be publishable.  The question here was what license should be used when you dont want to grant others license to use the code."}}