I've one question regarding this: why do we execute Rat plugin *only* in
rat profile, is there any specific reason? Should include this into test
phase, so Maven test would fail, thus we can avoid similar problems?

On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 2:14 PM, Niels Basjes <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I was going through the codebase and I found that several files are not
> Apache licensed.
>
> https://github.com/apache/avro/tree/master/lang/java/
> compiler/src/main/java/org/apache/avro/compiler/schema
>
> Some of these files do not have a copyright block (fixable), yet some have
> this:
>
> /*
>
> * Copyright (c) 2001 - 2016, Zoltan Farkas All Rights Reserved.
> *
> * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
> * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
> * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
> * version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
> *
> * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
> * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
> * GNU General Public License for more details.
> *
> * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
> * License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
> * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307,
> USA.
> */
>
> And according to https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-x the
> LGPL is not allowed to be included.
>
> How do we fix this problem?
>
> --
> Best regards / Met vriendelijke groeten,
>
> Niels Basjes
>

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