| [orbit-dev] ebr-maven-plugin: How to handle odd licenses? (Invalid license 'Custom license based on Apache 1.1') |
Hi fellow Orbit developers, I am currently trying to address Bug 520535 [1], which means creating an Eclipse bundle recipe for org.dom4j. Unfortunately, the ebr-maven-plugin complains about the non-standard license used by org.dom4j: > INFO] --- ebr-maven-plugin:1.0.0-SNAPSHOT:eclipse-ip-info (default) @ org.dom4j --- > [ERROR] Unable to map license 'Custom license based on Apache 1.1' to a known license. > [ERROR] Know licenses are: > [ERROR] - Apache License, 2.0 > [ERROR] - Apache Software License 1.1 > [ERROR] - Common Development and Distribution License > [ERROR] - Common Public License 1.0 > [ERROR] - Eclipse Public License > [ERROR] - MIT license > [ERROR] - Mozilla Public License 1.0 (MPL) > [ERROR] - Mozilla Public License 1.1 (MPL) > [ERROR] - New BSD license > [ERROR] - Public Domain The ATO CQ [2] calls the license a "Custom license based on Apache 1.1", but that's not something the ebr-maven-plugin recognizes. How are such exceptions supposed to be handled? On a related note, the plugin also requires a <reference>, i.e., an URI at which the license can be found. As dom4j.org doesn't list the license, the best I can think of is <https://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/blob/477a4fbe006e0a637eba803bee7e6cdcc46e81db/LICENSE> This should be stable (due to the commit ID), but contains some minor tweaks compared to the license we previously distributed (updated copyright year, updated project homepage): > Copyright 2001-2015 (C) MetaStuff, Ltd. and DOM4J contributors. All Rights Reserved. > Due credit should be given to the DOM4J Project - https://dom4j.github.com/ WDYT? Is the above an appropriate <reference>? Best wishes, Andreas [1] <https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=520535> [2] <https://dev.eclipse.org/ipzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7762> -- Codetrails GmbH The best code possible Robert-Bosch-Str. 7, 64293 Darmstadt Phone: +49-6151-276-7092 Mobile: +49-170-811-3791 http://www.codetrails.com/ Managing Director: Dr. Marcel Bruch Handelsregister: Darmstadt HRB 91940
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