[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Issue Comment Edited: (JBIDE-9109) Include a Licencing plugin in JBoss Tools

[Nick Boldt (JIRA)]

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Nick Boldt edited comment on JBIDE-9109 at 6/9/11 6:15 PM:
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Every plugin has to declare its own license / copyright details. Every .java file CAN do the same (but need not if the plugin that contains it states this information). Ideally, every feature should ALSO include this information so it's presented to users upon installation.

But since it's possible to install a plugin w/o its containing feature (eg., by including it in a different feature), you really NEED to have every plugin declaring its usage rights/rules.

Bottom line: great idea, but can't be done.

      was (Author: nickboldt):
    Every feature has to declare its own license / copyright details. Every .java file CAN do the same (but need not if the plugin that contains it states this information, and it's in the containing feature.

But since it's possible to install a plugin w/o its containing feature, you really NEED to have every plugin declaring its usage rights/rules.

Bottom line: great idea, but can't be done.
  
> Include a Licencing plugin in JBoss Tools
> -----------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: JBIDE-9109
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-9109
>             Project: Tools (JBoss Tools)
>          Issue Type: Feature Request
>          Components: Legal
>            Reporter: Lincoln Baxter III
>            Assignee: Max Rydahl Andersen
>
> Would be nice to have an integrated plugin in JBoss tools to do licensing so that we don't always have to go out and get a separate plugin just to change the license on all files :) Just an idea.

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