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GitHub reported the licence as NOASSERTION/Other because its detector cannot parse LICENSE.md once the vendored Lua and LuaFileSystem notices are appended. Adding a plain LICENSE with only the canonical ISC text makes it detectable; LICENSE.md keeps the third-party notices and now points at it. package.json already declared ISC, so npm was never affected. SECURITY.md records what is and is not a vulnerability here, which matters more than usual for this package: embedding Lua hands scripts os.execute, io.open and LuaFileSystem, so running untrusted Lua is out of scope by construction rather than by oversight. Misuse of the low-level stack API is likewise documented rather than treated as a defect. Adds LICENSE to the files allowlist and to the release tarball guard. Verified the guard still passes: 67 files, SECURITY.md correctly not shipped. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
0x7878 is the same person; using the legal name makes the copyright line meaningful to anyone reading it. Medaeus245 stays: that is a separate author whose 2017 copyright cannot be removed. Also splits the two holders onto their own lines, which is the conventional form for multiple copyright holders, and updates package.json to name Maurice as author with Medaeus245 as a contributor. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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* docs: add LICENSE and SECURITY.md GitHub reported the licence as NOASSERTION/Other because its detector cannot parse LICENSE.md once the vendored Lua and LuaFileSystem notices are appended. Adding a plain LICENSE with only the canonical ISC text makes it detectable; LICENSE.md keeps the third-party notices and now points at it. package.json already declared ISC, so npm was never affected. SECURITY.md records what is and is not a vulnerability here, which matters more than usual for this package: embedding Lua hands scripts os.execute, io.open and LuaFileSystem, so running untrusted Lua is out of scope by construction rather than by oversight. Misuse of the low-level stack API is likewise documented rather than treated as a defect. Adds LICENSE to the files allowlist and to the release tarball guard. Verified the guard still passes: 67 files, SECURITY.md correctly not shipped. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: credit Maurice Schmicking by name instead of the 0x7878 handle 0x7878 is the same person; using the legal name makes the copyright line meaningful to anyone reading it. Medaeus245 stays: that is a separate author whose 2017 copyright cannot be removed. Also splits the two holders onto their own lines, which is the conventional form for multiple copyright holders, and updates package.json to name Maurice as author with Medaeus245 as a contributor. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Two findings from the repo configuration audit.
LICENSE
GitHub showed the licence as
NOASSERTION/ "Other" in the sidebar. Its detector cannot parseLICENSE.mdonce the vendored Lua and LuaFileSystem notices are appended to the ISC text.Adds a plain
LICENSEcontaining only the canonical ISC text so it is detected.LICENSE.mdkeeps the third-party notices and now points atLICENSEas canonical.package.jsonalready declared"license": "ISC", so npm was never affected — this was a GitHub display problem only.LICENSEis added to thefilesallowlist and to the release tarball guard. Guard re-verified locally: 67 files, passes.SECURITY.md
Worth more than boilerplate here, because embedding Lua makes the trust boundary unusual and it should be stated rather than assumed:
os.execute,io.open,require— plus LuaFileSystem, so they can run commands and touch files with the process's privileges. That is what embedding Lua is, not a defect.SetField/GetFieldguard against it; other methods do not. Documented behaviour.Supported versions are 2.x only, with the reason given: 1.x does not build on current Node.js and had the fixed-size error buffer among other memory-safety defects.
SECURITY.mdis deliberately not shipped in the npm tarball — verified.Note
I enabled private vulnerability reporting via the API, but GitHub does not surface that setting in
security_and_analysisfor user-owned repos, so I could not confirm it. Please check Settings → Security. The policy carries a fallback instruction either way.🤖 Generated with Claude Code