[MPIR-351] Adding functionality to dependencies goal in order to integrate with maven license plugin and source missing licenses from specified properties file.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 2.9
• Component/s: dependencies
• Flags: Patch
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Aneesh Natarajan
• Created: 16/Nov/16 22:23
• Updated: 15/Dec/19 21:03
• Resolved: 15/Dec/19 21:03

Description

The maven license plugin produces a THIRD-PARTY.properties file with each of the third party libraries with missing licensing information. The patch that I am proposing uses those properties file to source licensing information when developing the dependencies.html reports. It would include the following:

• Add configurable property dependency.license.resource that specifies the path of the properties file
• Have MavenProject object source licensing information from properties file, when license block is not available in pom.xml file of dependency.