[RAT-76] allow auto-add headers from plugin

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.6, 0.7
• Fix Version/s: 0.7
• Assignee: Jochen Wiedmann
• Reporter: Michael Rheinheimer
• Created: 14/Jun/10 19:25
• Updated: 13/Jul/10 16:11
• Resolved: 13/Jul/10 16:11

Description

We looked into switching from com.google.code.maven-license-plugin to apache-rat-plugin to take advantage of the auto-add header feature. However, the plugin does not appear capable of this.

I see that it can be done standalone: http://incubator.apache.org/rat/apache-rat/index.html, but the rat-plugin module makes no reference to any *AbstractLicenceAppender.

I suppose if this feature were added, you'd want to still fail the build, and report that license headers were added to files, and suggest that a commit is now needed.