So daffodil which is an Apache project built with sbt uses apache rat via
sbt in order to check for problematic licenses, see
https://github.com/Apache/daffodil#license-check. I think we can just copy
them

For SBOM, this is already covered in Pekko (this was carried over from Akka)

On Wed, Feb 8, 2023 at 4:29 PM Josep Prat <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> FOSSA is usually used for a couple of things. One is the one you already
> assumed (check for problematic licenses). The other is to generate an SBOM.
> AFAIR, Akka was using an sbt plugin to generate the SBOM. So the license
> checker would be the feature we are interested in.
>
> Best,
>
>
> > On 2023/02/08 16:04 CET PJ Fanning <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Is anyone familiar with the Fossa checks in the Akka CI builds? We've
> disabled them in Pekko builds because we don't have API keys setup as
> repository secrets.
> >
> > ASF requires us to check for problematic licenses in our dependencies
> [1]. I'm making assumptions but I presume that this is what the Fossa check
> is doing. If there is anyone who can correct me, that would be great.
> >
> > If this check does indeed make useful checks for annoying licenses, then
> I'll see about getting the INFRA team to get an API key from Fossa and set
> it up as a Repository secret for us.
> >
> > Regards,
> > PJ
> >
> > [1] https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html
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