On 2 March 2018 at 04:28, Carlos Santana <[email protected]> wrote: > Forwarding to Incubator mailing list to see if they any guidance. > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: Ying Chun Guo <[email protected]> > Date: Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 10:27 PM > Subject: Two issues with license and notice auditing > To: <[email protected]> > > > Hi, team > > When we are using Apache Creadur to audit licensing and notice files, we > met with two problems. I'm looking for any people who have experiences on > that. > > 1. Apache Rat cannot acknowledge the "minified" ASF, i.e. the short format > of Apache license header, which we plan to use in the small test files.
Please raise a JIRA against RAT so the license can be added to the list. Meanwhile, you can add your own licenses: https://creadur.apache.org/rat/apache-rat-plugin/examples/custom-license.html > 2. Apache Tentacles cannot support tar.gz files in the staging repo. > > We have solutions to bypass these two questions. For the first issue, we > can put those files with mini headers in the Rat exclusion list. Please don't do that; see above. > For the > second issue, we can use bash script to check LICENSE and NOTICE or we can > use zip format instead, other than tar.gz. But I would like to check if > there are any other suggestions to these issues. Thanks. > > Best regards > Ying Chun Guo (Daisy)
