On Dec 13, 2010, at 11:30 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Stefane Fermigier <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Dec 13, 2010, at 9:48 AM, Rupert Westenthaler wrote: >>> License Headers >>> >>> A short google search for "mvn plugin license" showed up several >>> options for plugin that are able to manage license headers. I suggest >>> to use one of those. >> >> >> I'm sure Bertrand knows the best one to use :)... > > Er....no, why would we use a plugin to manage license headers? > > http://incubator.apache.org/rat/ is useful to check headers before a > release, but I'm not sure what the use case is for a maven license > headers plugin.
I can see 3 different use cases: 1. Check that all your source code files have some kind of header, with some rules (for instance regarding the copyright years, etc.) 2. Add a given header to your files when it's missing, according to some rules. 3. Report on the various license types used in your headers, so as to check you don't have some legal issue. S. -- Stefane Fermigier, Founder and Chairman, Nuxeo Open Source, Java EE based, Enterprise Content Management (ECM) http://www.nuxeo.com/ - +33 1 40 33 79 87 - http://twitter.com/sfermigier Join the Nuxeo Group on LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/groups?gid=43314 New Nuxeo release: http://nuxeo.com/dm54 "There's no such thing as can't. You always have a choice."
