[METRON-1163] RAT failures for metron-interface/metron-alerts

• Type: Bug
• Status: Done
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Done
• Affects Version/s: 0.4.1
• Fix Version/s: 0.4.1
• Assignee: Matthew Foley
• Reporter: Matthew Foley
• Created: 07/Sep/17 05:06
• Updated: 19/Dec/17 09:53
• Resolved: 19/Dec/17 09:53

Description

When the maven-rat-plugin runs against metron-alerts component, it has:

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.rat:apache-rat-plugin:0.12:check (default) on project metron-alerts: Too many files with unapproved license: 2 See RAT report in: .../metron-interface/metron-alerts/target/rat.txt

In the report file it says:
Files with unapproved licenses:

• .../metron-interface/metron-alerts/dist/3rdpartylicenses.txt
• .../metron-interface/metron-alerts/dist/styles.a0b6b99c10d9a13dc67e.bundle.css

The file "3rdpartylicenses.txt" is an empty (0-length) file. Should it be?

The styles.a0b6b99c10d9a13dc67e.bundle.css file is a complex file referencing

• Font Awesome 4.7.0 by @davegandy - http://fontawesome.io - @fontawesome
• License - http://fontawesome.io/license (Font: SIL OFL 1.1, CSS: MIT License)

which in turn says:

• all CSS files License: MIT License (Apache Category A)
• Font License: SIL OFL 1.1 (Apache Category B)
• Documentation License: CC BY 3.0 (Apache Category B)

Both of these files are downloaded (or generated?) during build (they're not in the Metron repository), but we're still responsible for the licensing. Suggestions for passing RAT test? If the suggestion is to exclude these files, please provide justification.

Issue Links

• is cloned by: METRON-1373 RAT failure for metron-interface/metron-alerts
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #743