I think the license-maven-plugin does have the ability to generate license headers or remove/update them. Is that not the behavior we are looking for, or do I misunderstand?
--Misagh ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Francesco Chicchiriccò" <ilgro...@apache.org> > To: "dev" <dev@syncope.apache.org> > Sent: Friday, October 4, 2019 11:59:40 AM > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] How to replace ianal-maven-plugin? > On 04/10/19 09:55, Misagh Moayyed wrote: >>> We can only think to replace its features with something else; the job that >>> ianal-maven-plugin does is to ensure that each artifact we generate contains >>> both LICENSE and NOTICE files, in the appropriate places; otherwise, fail >>> the >>> build. >>> >>> Any idea about how to obtain the same feature with other plugin(s)? >> >> I have used the following in the past: >> >> - https://github.com/Jasig/maven-notice-plugin (...which I more or less >> maintain >> with others) >> - https://github.com/mycila/license-maven-plugin >> >> I am not sure if they are really that much better than the current plugin, >> but >> it's worth trying them out with Syncope. > > Are you sure that such two plugins do the job that ianal-maven-plugin does? As > far as I can see, the former generates NOTICE files, while the latter does > more > or less the same job that Apache RAT does. > > -- > Francesco Chicchiriccò > > Tirasa - Open Source Excellence > http://www.tirasa.net/ > > Member at The Apache Software Foundation > Syncope, Cocoon, Olingo, CXF, OpenJPA, PonyMail > http://home.apache.org/~ilgrosso/
