Add ability to customize 3rd party licences output

[simhnna]

Command

build

Description

Currently you only get a plaintext output. This is probably enough to include in the build applications but makes further processing unnecessarily hard. I need to provide a SBOM (software bill of material) with detailed information about the used dependencies and can't really use the text output for that

Describe the solution you'd like

It would be nice to be able to customize the output. My current solution is to patch license-webpack-plugin setting the renderLicences option to JSON.stringify to be able to postprocess the generated json file. It would be nice if there was a built in way configured in angular.json to customize the licence output. Could maybe offer a couple of formats out of the box with the ability to define a custom format. I didn't really think about how that custom format would be, the first two things that come to mind:

1. path to a js/ts file that is executed
2. path to a template file

Describe alternatives you've considered

No response

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