Maven license Plugin

The Maven License Plugin is used to deal with license stuff on a maven project.

What's new in version 3.0

As planned, license descriptor was removed from project.

The consolidation file (called missing file) of the third-party has been improved :

- take account of special dependencies (with zip type for example) - regenerate this file if needed (without using the force flag) - delete from this file all obsolete dependencies no more used in project

Projet will migrate to Codehaus under the name of license-maven-plugin.

This is then the last version under this name. hope you will continue to use it on codehaus forge :).

New location of the project is here : http://mojo.codehaus.org/license-maven-plugin.

What's new in version 2.4 et 2.4.1

We would like not to use any longer project description file since it is too redundant. For that purpose we wrote a new scanning mode for the update-file-header mojo which is automaticly fired when no project file descriptor is found.

The idea of this new mode is quite easy : Sepcify somme roots directories to scan. For each of theses roots, if a file with a known extension is detected then do the magic update of header.

Some default values are offered : roots are : src, target/generated-sources and target/processed-sources.

It is also possible to specify includes and exlcudes files to treate on theses roots by using includes and excludes parameters.

List of all extensions can be found by invoking the comment-style-list goal.

This new mode will replace the descriptor way in version 3 (says file descriptor will disappear for good).

For more information, see the new page Configure update-file-header goal.

What's new in version 2.3.1

Use maven-helper-plugin 1.2.6 (improve default encoding when nothing is specified).

License header

The license header is a comment added on the top of sources files.

To detect the header on files we use processor technology, with tags

  # % L Content # L %

The header is composed of two parts :

• the first part gives some common information for all files of a maven module (such as project name, organisation, ...). * the second part resumes the license used.

  Here an example :

    /*
     * # % L
     * Plugin maven de changement de license
     * %%
     * Copyright (C) 2008 - 2009 CodeLutin
     * %%
     * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
     * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as
     * published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
     * License, or (at your option) any later version.
     *
     * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
     * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
     * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
     * GNU General Lesser Public License for more details.
     *
     * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Lesser Public
     * License along with this program.  If not, see
     * <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0.html>.
     * # L %
     */