Hi folks, I've been searching the archives for information on how maven addresses the licensing requirements of its contained artifacts but haven't found an answer.
I'm referring to "maven" the build tool and not referring to the maven central repository or any repository in particular. Many artifacts assembled via maven (again, the tool and not the repository) require that a license notice accompany the downloaded artifact(s). To this extent, one should be able to indicate in the POM of a particular artifact that one (or more) license notices be retrieved and delivered to the local repository at the same moment as the artifact itself. Please note that this should be the normal course of events for a normal build goal (ex: mvn install) and not be some special goal, because it should be mandatory on the retrieval of the artifact into the local repository. Furthermore, I would suggest that retrieving the license file into the local repository is not sufficient: an information line in the normal build log should indicate the license (or group of licenses) with a link to the license file recovered in the local repository. I think that this is the requirement for maven, as a build tool, to permit a POM to indicate the license requirement and to enforce that license requirement (i.e. copying the license notice and making the copy conspicuous to the receiver) as part of a standard build. If you've gotten this far, then I have two questions: (a) Does maven allow this today? (And, please, don't mention any maven license plugins -- it must be part of the box standard build) (b) If not possible, don't you agree that this is the real requirement? thanks for returns and help on this point cheers -alan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
