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List:       maven-user
Subject:    Re: Compatible License Plugin - does one exist ?
From:       Daniel Kulp <dkulp () apache ! org>
Date:       2007-08-31 0:49:59
Message-ID: 200708302049.59826.dkulp () apache ! org
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You actually might be able to do this with the remote-resources plugin.   
We currently use it to generate the NOTICE files which include the 
License for each dependency.   Since it's just a velocity template, you 
might be able to sort via the licenses before printing anything.   Not 
really sure though as I'm by no means a velocity expert.

Dan

On Thursday 30 August 2007, Wayne Fay wrote:
> I think a useful license report would simply look at all dependencies
> (including transitive) and then issue a report at the end which simply
> told you:
>
> GPL
> a.b.c-1.0.1
> x.y.z-2.0.2
>
> MIT
> l.m.n-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT
>
> None specified
> f.g.h-4.0.1
>
> You could perhaps go the next step of saying "based on your
> dependencies, it seems like you could use BSD or LGPL" but that would
> require basically hard-coding rules -and- that all of your
> dependencies have licenses declared, which is HIGHLY unlikely.
>
> Wayne
>
> On 8/30/07, Alexander Sack <pisymbol@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 'Sure they can, but how do you know if a license is compatible
> > (maybe it should spit out "IANAL" j/k)?  Well anyway, I do agree
> > that a license attribute maybe useful none the less.
> >
> > -aps
> >
> > On 8/30/07, Dennis Lundberg <dennisl@apache.org> wrote:
> > > If the dependencies have maven pom.xml files, they can specify the
> > > license in them.
> > >
> > > Alexander Sack wrote:
> > > > Just out of curiosity, how the heck would you figure this out? 
> > > > Seems
> > >
> > > like
> > >
> > > > this would be too complicated to do in software though I AM 100%
> > > > FOR replacing corporate legal teams with a Mojo! :D!
> > > >
> > > > -aps
> > > >
> > > > On 8/30/07, Wayne Fay <waynefay@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >> Not that I know of. If you write it, please contribute it back,
> > > >> perhaps someone else would find it useful.
> > > >>
> > > >> Wayne
> > > >>
> > > >> On 8/30/07, Stephen More <stephen.more@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >>> I would like to release some code as "open source", but I am
> > > >>> not sure which license to pick.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> "Does your project currently use any open source code? If so,
> > > >>> then you may need to use the same license that the open source
> > > >>> code uses, or another license that is compatible with it."
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Maven does a great job with figuring out dependencies. Based
> > > >>> on these dependencies is there  a plugin that can identify
> > > >>> what license could be assigned to this project ?
> > > >>>
> > > >>>
> > > >>> -Thanks
> > > >>> Steve More
> > > >>>
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