Details
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Improvement
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Status: In Progress
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Major
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Resolution: Unresolved
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0.9
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Description
Currently rat searches for ASLed files. In order to broaden the usage of this tool I'd like to add a new maven configuration option that allows the definition of a target license.
This license has to exist in RAT and changes the output of the rat report but does not change the default behaviour for backwards compatibility.
=OLD REPORT=
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Summary
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Notes: 1
Binaries: 187
Archives: 0
Standards: 149
Apache Licensed: 2
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Files with Apache License headers will be marked AL
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=NEW REPORT=
If no configuration option is supplied above report stays the same, but may change for different licenses (e.g. GPL / RAT-13).
==MVN CONFIGURATION==
<configuration>
<!-- define family value name of target license -->
<defaultLicenseName>GNU General Public License, version 3</defaultLicenseName>
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will lead to the output:
==FLEXIBLE REPORT==
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Summary
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Notes: 1
Binaries: 187
Archives: 0
Standards: 149
GPL3 Licensed: 2
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Files with GNU General Public License, version 3 headers will be marked GPL3.
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Since I do have a patch for RAT-13 this were the next step to realise a multilicense usage of rat.
