Mojo License Maven Plugin Version 1.7 Released

The Mojo team is pleased to announce the release of the License Maven Plugin, version 1.7.

This plugin manages the license of a maven project and its dependencies (update file headers, download dependencies licenses, check thirdparty licenses, .).

To get this update, simply specify the version in your project's plugin configuration:

1<plugin>
2  <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
3  <artifactId>license-maven-plugin</artifactId>
4  <version>1.7</version>
5</plugin>

Description

This License Plugin has the following goals:

• license:add-third-party

  Goal to generate the third-party license file. This file contains a list of the dependencies and their licenses. Each dependency and it's license is displayed on a single line in the format

  () :: - It will also copy it in the class-path (says add the generated directory as a resource of the build).

• license:aggregate-add-third-party

  This aggregator goal (will be executed only once and only on pom projects) executed the add-third-party on all his modules (in a parellel build cycle) then aggreates all the third-party files in final one in the pom project.

• license:check-file-header

  The goal to check if the state of header on project source files.

• license:comment-style-list

  Displays all the available comment style to box file headers.

• license:download-licenses

  Download the license files of all the current project's dependencies, and generate a summary file containing a list of all dependencies and their licenses.

• license:license-list

  Display all available licenses.

• license:third-party-report

  Generates a report of all third-parties detected in the module.

• license:update-file-header

  The goal to update (or add) the header on project source files. This goal replace the update-header goal which can not deal with Copyright. This goal use a specific project file descriptor project.xml to describe all files to update for a whole project.

• license:update-project-license

  Updates (or creates) the main project license file according to the given license defines as licenseName. Can also generate a bundled license file (to avoid collision names in class-path). This file is by default generated in META-INF class-path directory.

Useful links

• JIRA: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MLICENSE
• svn: https://svn.codehaus.org/mojo/tags/license-maven-plugin-1.7

Release Notes

Bug:

• MLICENSE-55 - "could not rename" warning whenever the header of a source file is updated
• MLICENSE-79 - add-third-party mojo may add unwanted dependencies to the generated third party file when executing in multiple projects in a single maven build.
• MLICENSE-86 - [WARNING] could not rename
• MLICENSE-105 - Fix some log messages

Improvement:

• MLICENSE-103 - Don't show each single file name

Enjoy,

The Mojo team.

tony