Have you guys thought about using Apache RAT [1]? It's not perfect but it implements a lot of license checks, and as far as I know, integrates nicely into Ant and Maven.
Cheers, Chris [1] http://incubator.apache.org/rat/ On Mar 16, 2011, at 5:54 PM, Robert Muir wrote: > On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Grant Ingersoll <gsing...@apache.org> wrote: >> As Robert can no doubt attest, we often scramble to make sure i's are dotted >> and t's are crossed when it comes to filling out LICENSE.txt and NOTICE.txt >> right before releases, thereby burdening the RM with way too much work in >> validating what dependency has which license. Thus, we've been working to >> resolve this. >> >> In prep for the landing of LUCENE-2952 and to make life easier on release >> managers going forward, we've adopted the following conventions for dealing >> with licenses: >> >> 1. For every dependency (i.e. jar file), there needs to be a corresponding >> file-LICENSE-<LICENSE_TYPE>.txt file, as in: foo-2.3.1.jar has the >> corresponding foo-LICENSE-BSD.txt file (assuming foo is BSD licensed) in the >> same directory as the jar file. >> >> 2. _IF_ the license requires a NOTICE entry, then there must be a file of >> the name file-NOTICE.txt, as in foo-NOTICE.txt. >> >> Failing to meet either one will break the build once L-2952 is committed >> (which should be soon for trunk and will be backported to 3.2). >> >> Consider yourself notified. > > +1 > > I think we can all agree, we want our licensing to be "rock-solid" and > we should strive to raise the standards here for our project. Its > actually more important than if our code even compiles. > > Automated checks go a long way, thank you Grant for working on this, > because we have a lot of third-party dependencies and its difficult to > verify that everything is in proper order. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 Email: chris.a.mattm...@nasa.gov WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
