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Dennis Lundberg updated MPIR-95:
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Component/s: license
> Better handling of HTML license documents
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> Key: MPIR-95
> URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPIR-95
> Project: Maven 2.x Project Info Reports Plugin
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: license
> Affects Versions: 2.1
> Reporter: Martin von Gagern
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: pom.xml
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> I've got a document here specifying
> http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php as its license. This is
> handles rather poorly by the generated license document, as the framework
> around the license text gets in the way and the heading levels of the license
> text don't fit. I can imagine several possible solutions to improve this
> situations:
> 1. Specify local file in pom. This makes it difficult to automatically handle
> licensing automatically, as only well known public URLs can be used to
> identify well known licenses, which won't work for local file names or
> private web sites.
> 2. Provide a way to specify appropriate local files for licenses without
> touching the url in the pom. This could take the form of some map parameter
> that associates license names with license documents.
> 3. Provide a way to simply not include any license text, only the link. This
> is the quickest solution.
> 4. Embed the license text as an iframe with an external source, so you only
> link and copy nothing.
> 5. Parse HTML and allow XPath selectors or something similar to extract the
> license content.
> When you do some better HTML parsing one day (maybe using
> org.htmlparser:htmlparser?), you might wish to adjust headline levels as
> well. Find the highest level headline that occurs in the extracted fragment,
> calculate an offset that places this one level below the license name
> headline printed by the plugin, and apply this offset to every headline in
> the fragment.
> If you decide for one of the solutions 2-4, I guess I could hack a quick
> patch to implement this. 5 is more work, of course.
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