I looked for licenses/notice/crypto stuff in the Jar by unzipping it, and
looking at the top level and within META-INF directory for LICENSE*, NOTICE*,
README* (anycase).

On another note - another RAT check might be also to check that the Jars that
your project is building  have LICENSE/NOTICE files in one of these spots.  I'm
not sure about the need to check Jars you're depending on but not building for
the existence of LICENSE/NOTICE files.

One more complication: some builds create OSGi bundles which are a kind of Jar
file.  One style of packaging for these bundles includes within the outer Jar
(bundle), a directory (typically called lib/ but could be called anything),
which contains Jar files.  For this, the outer Jar file ought to have
LICENSE/NOTICE/crypto stuff which includes the amalgamation of all the Jars
contained within.

-Marshall

On 8/15/2011 1:08 AM, Stefan Bodewig wrote:
> On 2011-08-15, Marshall Schor wrote:
>
>> yes, it's entirely manual at the moment.
> OK, thanks.
>
> Can you describe what you've done, where you've looked for licenses,
> notices, cryprto notices et al?  META-INF or in other places as well?
>
> Stefan
>

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