The Mojo team is pleased to announce the release of the License Maven Plugin, version 1.6.
This plugin manages the license of a maven project and its dependencies (update file headers, download dependencies licenses, check thirdparty licenses, …).
Description
This License Plugin has the following goals:
license:add-third-party
Goal to generate the third-party license file. This file contains a list of the dependencies and their licenses. Each dependency and it’s license is displayed on a single line in the format:
(<license-name>) <project-name> <groupId>:<artifactId>:<version> - <project-url>
It will also copy it in the class-path (says add the generated directory as a resource of the build).license:aggregate-add-third-party
This aggregator goal (will be executed only once and only on pom projects) executed the add-third-party on all his modules (in a parellel build cycle) then aggreates all the third-party files in final one in the pom project.
license:check-file-header
The goal to check if the state of header on project source files.
license:comment-style-list
Displays all the available comment style to box file headers.
license:download-licenses
Download the license files of all the current project’s dependencies, and generate a summary file containing a list of all dependencies and their licenses.
license:license-list
Display all available licenses.
license:third-party-report
Generates a report of all third-parties detected in the module.
license:update-file-header
The goal to update (or add) the header on project source files. This goal replace the update-header goal which can not deal with Copyright. This goal use a specific project file descriptor project.xml to describe all files to update for a whole project.
license:update-project-license
Updates (or creates) the main project license file according to the given license defines as licenseName. Can also generate a bundled license file (to avoid collision names in class-path). This file is by default generated in META-INF class-path directory.
To get this update, simply specify the version in your project’s plugin configuration:
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The artifacts have been deployed to the mojo repository and will be mirrored to central.
Fixed Bugs:
- MLICENSE-68 – license:third-party-report doesn’t honour licenseMerges
- MLICENSE-91 – .property files mangled after adding license header
- MLICENSE-96 – Some licenses contain whitespace errors
- MLICENSE-97 – Add the copyright section in MIT License
Improvements:
- MLICENSE-80 – Add BSD licenses to the built-ins
- MLICENSE-82 – Remove empty license groups from result file if using license merges
- MLICENSE-84 – Option to sort licenses by letter if grouped by license
- MLICENSE-88 – Support for EUPL v1.1
- MLICENSE-94 – Add license.includeTransitiveDependencies property access
- MLICENSE-95 – Include copyright year range, not just inception year
- MLICENSE-99 – Add EPL v1.0 license
- MLICENSE-100 – Update some dependencies and plugins versions
New Feature:
- MLICENSE-92 – license repository files can be dynamic
Task:
- MLICENSE-93 – use java 5 plexus annotations
Enjoy,
The Mojo team.