[Hawkular-dev] Checking and fixing license headers

[Thomas Segismont]

Hi,

See my comment on GitHub:
https://github.com/hawkular/hawkular-build-tools/pull/1#issuecomment-70625367

Let's continue the conversation there.

Thomas

Le 19/01/2015 19:45, Peter Palaga a écrit :
> Hi *,
>
> This [1] is is the second version of the PR. It solves the problem
> raised by tsegismont (whose validity was confimed by RH Legal) that in
> the license headers it is necessary to
>
>   > modify the year only in the event of changes and, in that event carry
>   > forward the initial year.  For example, if there's a change in 2016,
>   > or 2015 and 2016, I'd modify the entry to say Copyright 2014-2016.
>
> The present solution uses a place holder ${license.copyrightYears} in
> the template [2] that is evaluated by the license plugin separately for
> every source file, based on its git history.
>
> My 150116-license [3] branch in metrics shows how to use it.
>
> There are two use cases:
>
> (1) Fix or add the license headers in all project's files through
>       issuing
>
>       mvn license:format
>
>       Note that the commit [4] is a result of running mvn license:format
>       in the root directory of metrics
>
> (2) Check the presence of the headers and their correctness through
>
>       mvn license:check
>
>       Note that license:check is bound to the validation phase [5]
>
> Is [1] OK to be merged to hawkular-build-tools?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Peter
>
>
> [1] https://github.com/hawkular/hawkular-build-tools/pull/1
> [2]
> https://github.com/ppalaga/hawkular-build-tools/blob/150114-license/src/main/resources/hawkular-license/jboss-apache-2-template.txt#L1
> [3] https://github.com/ppalaga/rhq-metrics/tree/150116-license
> [4]
> https://github.com/ppalaga/rhq-metrics/commit/4fe8a6faed2bf70deb6e9cf82930d438e2532cd5
> [5] https://github.com/ppalaga/rhq-metrics/blob/150116-license/pom.xml#L491
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