Alright, I've enabled the default license matcher for our license checker
as part of this work:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IGNITE-13574

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Denis


On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 9:30 PM Denis Magda <[email protected]> wrote:

> Instead of using the "addDefaultLicenseMatchers" setting, we developed a
> practice of excluding non-Apache licenses from the checklist of the license
> checker. A couple of examples:
>
>    - BSD license:
>    https://github.com/apache/ignite/blob/ignite-13574/parent/pom.xml#L889
>    - Another BSD license:
>    https://github.com/apache/ignite/blob/ignite-13574/parent/pom.xml#L984
>    - JetBrains sources:
>    https://github.com/apache/ignite/blob/ignite-13574/parent/pom.xml#L903
>    - the list goes on and on, check all the exclusions of the license
>    checker:
>    https://github.com/apache/ignite/blob/ignite-13574/parent/pom.xml#L842
>
> Have we ever tried to use the "addDefaultLicenseMatchers" setting instead?
>
> -
> Denis
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 3:25 PM Denis Magda <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Igniters,
>>
>> I was adding a missing license header to some sources that were included
>> in our repository and found that the license checker rejects the MIT
>> license (it's compliant with Apache 2.0
>> <https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-a>). Take these
>> files as an example that are protected by the MIT license but rejected by
>> the license checker:
>>
>>    -
>>    
>> https://github.com/apache/ignite/blob/ignite-13574/docs/_sass/rouge-base16-solarized.scss
>>    -
>>    
>> https://github.com/apache/ignite/blob/ignite-13574/docs/_plugins/asciidoctor-extensions.rb
>>
>>
>> All the checks pass if to set the "addDefaultLicenseMatchers" setting of
>> the license checker to "true". Presently, that setting is "false":
>> https://github.com/apache/ignite/blob/ignite-13574/parent/pom.xml#L806
>>
>> Does anybody know why the "addDefaultLicenseMatchers" parameter is set to
>> "false"? I would go ahead and change it to "true".
>>
>> -
>> Denis
>>
>

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