[mojo-dev] [jira] (MLICENSE-80) Add BSD licenses to the built-ins

[Curtis Rueden (JIRA)]

Curtis Rueden created MLICENSE-80 Add BSD licenses to the built-ins Issue Type: Improvement Affects Versions: 1.4 Assignee: Tony Chemit Created: 26/Jul/13 10:02 AM Description: Most of my projects use the Simplified BSD license (i.e., BSD 2-clause or BSD-2). It would be great if the license-maven-plugin added BSD-style licenses as built-ins, so that I do not have to use a custom license server. I know that traditionally, one problem with BSD-style licenses is that they are only a template, which require filling in the organization name, etc. But recently I have seen more BSD-based license headers that are written without hardcoding the organization name anywhere. One problem remains: a BSD-style LICENSE.txt needs the organization name and copyright statement at the top. One way to address this would be a simple improvement to license-maven-plugin: add a configuration flag "prependCopyrightToLicense" or some such that synthesizes the LICENSE.txt from the projectName and organizationName (the same as is done for the source headers) plus the license.txt block itself. If others like this idea, I could work on a patch, but I wanted to first file this ticket to make sure I am on the right track with this idea. (I am guessing BSD licenses have been discussed before, since they are quite popular.) For an example of how I currently have license-maven-plugin configured, see: https://github.com/imagej/imagej/tree/imagej-2.0.0-beta-7.1/license https://github.com/imagej/imagej/blob/imagej-2.0.0-beta-7.1/pom.xml#L53 Project: Mojo's License Maven Plugin Priority: Major Reporter: Curtis Rueden

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