I tried sbt-rat. It reported no jar issues but logged nothing about them so
I wouldn't be sure it really checked. It reported every file as a license
issue because it doesn't know about our non-standard header. We can
probably find a setting to tell Rat that our special Apache header is ok.

On Wed 8 Feb 2023, 17:24 Matthew Benedict de Detrich,
<[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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