The automated RAT report is a good alternative IMO. However I still think a license check is not a bad idea as it will only come into play when somebody adds a file.
It seems other have atleast tried this. http://osdir.com/ml/windows.dotnet.castleproject.devel/2005-07/msg00266.html Rajith On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Andrew Kennedy < [email protected]> wrote: > On 15 Feb 2011, at 19:49, Robbie Gemmell wrote: > >> There is scope for inaccurate results on licence matching, and >> exceptions could also be a pain if conducted pre-commit, so I'm not >> sure it should be a commit hook. We should really just have RAT >> running automated checks for us on the ASF CI boxes (along with >> several other types of testing...) on a regular basis. >> > > > Agree. > > There is a Maven plug-in for that. I have set up my Mavenised Qpid build to > run a RAT report automatically during CI, as part of the "mvn site" > generation. This works vey nicely, and if^H^Hwhen we move to Maven from Ant, > we can set it up very easily. > > Andrew. > -- > -- andrew d kennedy ? do not fold, bend, spindle, or mutilate ; > -- http://grkvlt.blogspot.com/ ? edinburgh : +44 7582 293 255 ; > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Apache Qpid - AMQP Messaging Implementation > Project: http://qpid.apache.org > Use/Interact: mailto:[email protected] > > -- Regards, Rajith Attapattu Red Hat http://rajith.2rlabs.com/
