Automatic NOTICE and LICENCE verification and generation?

[Chris Burroughs <ch...@gmail.com>]

I have been searching for a way to automated the generation and
verification of NOTICE and LICENCE files (data could be in a pom or some
other format) for the kafka podling.  The closest I could find was the
as yet un-released whisker [1] and a maven-notice-plugin [2].  Based on
the sparsity of reference neither of these appears to be widely used
yet.  The License Maven Plugin [3] also calculates all of the required
information to do what it already does, but as far as I can tell does
not already generate an all-in-one licence or notice file.

What program do incubator members or TLPs use to generate and verify
these files?  If no complete program yet exists, is there a file that
lists which lisences should be in LICENCE versus also in NOTICE per
http://apache.org/legal/resolved.html#required-third-party-notices ?

[1] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/rat/whisker/

[2] https://wiki.jasig.org/display/LIC/maven-notice-plugin

[3] http://mojo.codehaus.org/license-maven-plugin/index.html

Re: Automatic NOTICE and LICENCE verification and generation?

[Robert Burrell Donkin <rd...@apache.org>]

On 12/03/11 19:04, Chris Burroughs wrote:
> I have been searching for a way to automated the generation and
> verification of NOTICE and LICENCE files (data could be in a pom or some
> other format) for the kafka podling.  The closest I could find was the
> as yet un-released whisker [1] and a maven-notice-plugin [2].  Based on
> the sparsity of reference neither of these appears to be widely used
> yet.  The License Maven Plugin [3] also calculates all of the required
> information to do what it already does, but as far as I can tell does
> not already generate an all-in-one licence or notice file.

Generation and verification are the whisker use cases. I've been making
good progress working on documenting and adding unit tests to the
original case base.

Robert