Handling of project and 3rd party licenses
You can use the Maven-License-Plugin to help you handle licenses consistently in your project. The plugin provides functionlity for:
- Including license information in your distributable.This is a requirement in many of the open source licenses.
Note: This can also be accomplished without using the plugin by adding a LICENSE:* in the root folder of your project, containing the license information for your project, see assemply plugin for details. - Include license information in source files.
- Include license information for the 3rd party components included in your distributable: This is often a requirement for using the 3rd party components. This information is also helpful in determining if you have included any components with dangerous licenses in your distribution.
Example configuration
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.nuiton</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-license-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.4</version>
<configuration>
<verbose>false</verbose>
<addSvnKeyWords>true</addSvnKeyWords>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>first</id>
<goals>
<goal>update-file-header</goal>
</goals>
<phase>process-sources</phase>
<configuration>
<licenseName>gpl_v3</licenseName>
<roots>
<root>src/main/java</root>
<root>src/test</root>
</roots>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>