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Konstantine Karantasis updated KAFKA-12622:
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Summary: Automate LICENSE file validation (was: Automate LICENCSE file
validation)
> Automate LICENSE file validation
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> Key: KAFKA-12622
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-12622
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: Task
> Reporter: John Roesler
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: 3.0.0, 2.8.1
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> In https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-12602, we manually constructed
> a correct license file for 2.8.0. This file will certainly become wrong again
> in later releases, so we need to write some kind of script to automate a
> check.
> It crossed my mind to automate the generation of the file, but it seems to be
> an intractable problem, considering that each dependency may change licenses,
> may package license files, link to them from their poms, link to them from
> their repos, etc. I've also found multiple URLs listed with various
> delimiters, broken links that I have to chase down, etc.
> Therefore, it seems like the solution to aim for is simply: list all the jars
> that we package, and print out a report of each jar that's extra or missing
> vs. the ones in our `LICENSE-binary` file.
> The check should be part of the release script at least, if not part of the
> regular build (so we keep it up to date as dependencies change).
>
> Here's how I do this manually right now:
> {code:java}
> // build the binary artifacts
> $ ./gradlewAll releaseTarGz
> // unpack the binary artifact
> $ tar xf core/build/distributions/kafka_2.13-X.Y.Z.tgz
> $ cd xf kafka_2.13-X.Y.Z
> // list the packaged jars
> // (you can ignore the jars for our own modules, like kafka, kafka-clients,
> etc.)
> $ ls libs/
> // cross check the jars with the packaged LICENSE
> // make sure all dependencies are listed with the right versions
> $ cat LICENSE
> // also double check all the mentioned license files are present
> $ ls licenses {code}
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