Re: Compatible License Plugin - does one exist ?

2007-08-30 Thread Daniel Kulp
You actually might be able to do this with the remote-resources plugin. We currently use it to generate the NOTICE files which include the License for each dependency. Since it's just a velocity template, you might be able to sort via the licenses before printing anything. Not really su

Re: Compatible License Plugin - does one exist ?

2007-08-30 Thread Stephen More
I thought a plugin for this might be asking for too much, but what about the possibility of modifying the Dependencies report from the site to include a license column ? The output could look something like this: http://jspwiki.org/wiki/ApacheRelicensing -Steve On 8/30/07, Wayne Fay <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Compatible License Plugin - does one exist ?

2007-08-30 Thread Wayne Fay
I think a useful license report would simply look at all dependencies (including transitive) and then issue a report at the end which simply told you: GPL a.b.c-1.0.1 x.y.z-2.0.2 MIT l.m.n-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT None specified f.g.h-4.0.1 You could perhaps go the next step of saying "based on your depe

Re: Compatible License Plugin - does one exist ?

2007-08-30 Thread Alexander Sack
'Sure they can, but how do you know if a license is compatible (maybe it should spit out "IANAL" j/k)? Well anyway, I do agree that a license attribute maybe useful none the less. -aps On 8/30/07, Dennis Lundberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If the dependencies have maven pom.xml files, they c

Re: Compatible License Plugin - does one exist ?

2007-08-30 Thread Dennis Lundberg
If the dependencies have maven pom.xml files, they can specify the license in them. Alexander Sack wrote: Just out of curiosity, how the heck would you figure this out? Seems like this would be too complicated to do in software though I AM 100% FOR replacing corporate legal teams with a Mojo!

Re: Compatible License Plugin - does one exist ?

2007-08-30 Thread Alexander Sack
Just out of curiosity, how the heck would you figure this out? Seems like this would be too complicated to do in software though I AM 100% FOR replacing corporate legal teams with a Mojo! :D! -aps On 8/30/07, Wayne Fay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not that I know of. If you write it, please co

Re: Compatible License Plugin - does one exist ?

2007-08-30 Thread Wayne Fay
Not that I know of. If you write it, please contribute it back, perhaps someone else would find it useful. Wayne On 8/30/07, Stephen More <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to release some code as "open source", but I am not sure > which license to pick. > > "Does your project currently us

Compatible License Plugin - does one exist ?

2007-08-30 Thread Stephen More
I would like to release some code as "open source", but I am not sure which license to pick. "Does your project currently use any open source code? If so, then you may need to use the same license that the open source code uses, or another license that is compatible with it." Maven does a great j