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Philipp Ottlinger commented on RAT-321:
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a) What kind of format would the configuration have?
* SPDX-recognition string
* license text / header example
or would this feature only be available in the CLI?
As many people use Maven, I'd personally prefer to be able to have this
available via maven & ant as well.
b) Just out of curiosity: does SPDX support multi-licensing such as
https://github.com/ottlinger/creadur-rat-examples/blob/master/RAT-179/maven/activate-default-licenses-and-add-new-ones/pom.xml
> Allow configuration to define SimplePatternBasedLicense instances
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> 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
> Priority: Minor
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> 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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