Re: Licenses files, Notice files and LUCENE-2952

2011-03-17 Thread Grant Ingersoll
I will probably submit a patch to RAT at some point for this, but wanted to prove it out here first as we have an immediate need and I don't want to wait for a RAT release nor do I have the time to learn the RAT code at this point. Others are welcome to port it. -Grant On Mar 17, 2011, at

Licenses files, Notice files and LUCENE-2952

2011-03-16 Thread Grant Ingersoll
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

Re: Licenses files, Notice files and LUCENE-2952

2011-03-16 Thread Mark Miller
We do use Apache RAT and it does not do these kinds of license checks. On Mar 16, 2011, at 9:19 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) wrote: 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