Make sure that Commander gets included as a GLF dependency

src/packages/generate-license-file/package.json

@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@
     "@commander-js/extra-typings": "^12.0.0",
     "@npmcli/arborist": "^7.0.0",
     "cli-spinners": "^2.6.0",
+    "commander": "^12.0.0",
     "cosmiconfig": "^9.0.0",
     "enquirer": "^2.3.6",
     "json5": "^2.2.3",

src/packages/generate-license-file/src/index.ts

@@ -7,3 +7,16 @@ export { getProjectLicenses } from "./lib/getProjectLicenses";
 export type { GetProjectLicensesOptions } from "./lib/getProjectLicenses";
 export type { LineEnding } from "./lib/lineEndings";
 export type { ILicense } from "./lib/models/license";
+
+// The following is included to ensure that Nx doesn't remove "commander"
+// as a dependency from packages/generate-license-file/package.json.
+//
+// This is necessary because the @nx/dependency-checks eslint rule will
+// remove commander if the generate-license-file package never imports from it directly.
+//
+// This approach was chosen over using the ignoredDependencies config option
+// to insure that the same eslint rule continues to catch when the commander
+// version falls out of sync with the @commander-js/extra-typings version.
+import type { Command as _Command } from "commander";
+// eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-unused-vars
+type _UnusedCommand = _Command;