Claude Warren created RAT-321:
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Summary: Allow configuration to define SimplePatternBasedLicense
instances
Key: RAT-321
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RAT-321
Project: Apache Rat
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: engine
Affects Versions: 0.15
Reporter: Claude Warren
The concept here is to rework the license matching definitions so that the
SimplePatternBasedLicense can be instantiated from a configuration file.
The reasoning is that there are a number of licences that are of particular
interest in projects both inside and outside of the ASF that are not currently
included in the code. This change will allow users to define the string
matching for any license that can be matched by simple string matching.
The proposal is to move all the static definitions into a default file and
allow the default to be ignored/overridden.
*Command Line Flags*
Add a flag --no-default-file to skip reading the default definitions from
within the package.
Add a flag --definition-file that accepts a file name argument, reads it and
adds the definitions to the list of definitions that are checked. Ensure that
multiple --definition-file arguments may provided and that they are added in
the order in the --definition-file.
*Static definition changes*
* Modify Meta.Data so that the license family category values are not
statically defined.
* Modify Meta.Data so that the license family names are not statically defined.
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