> -----Original Message----- > From: Chip Childers [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 15 August 2012 10:50 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Discuss] Rat and Wisker > > I've been spending a bunch of time collecting licenses and tracking down > copyright ownership for our dependencies, and I want to make life easier for > myself (and others in the future). > > I'd like to propose the use of Apache Wisker [1] to build our LICENSE and > NOTICE files going forward. To start with, I'd create the license and notice > metadata from the material that I've gathered. I should be able to generate > the binary and source distro files from that metadata. > > Long term, I'd love if we integrated both Rat and Wisker into our build > system. Leaving the discussion about *which* system to use... > Rat currently has plugins for Ant and Maven, and Wisker has a plugin for > Maven. Both have command line options though, which we could use in > whatever system we ended up using. > > I'm going to be using Wisker to at least help in my own sanity over the next > couple of days, but (unless there are any objections) can we agree to make it > the "official" license tracking mechanism for the project. > > Of course, this all assumes that I can get it working locally... ;-)
No objections from here! Thanks a lot for doing this, Chip. If you want, we can make jobs in Jenkins that would run this regularly. Just let me know what it takes (or I'll give you an account there). Cheers, Ewan.
