Add license section to pom.xml

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#912 opened on Sep 14, 2022 0 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Difficulty: 1/5
Estimated time: Under an hour
Newbie friendliness: 45/100

Issue type: Feature
Clarity: Clearly specified
Activity status: Stale
Tech stack: java
Domain: build-system

Research direction

Open pom.xml and review its existing project metadata. Confirm the project's license, add the corresponding licenses section, and verify that the XML remains valid and enables ORT to identify the license.

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Description

To create a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM), the ORT tool attempts to determine license information using the licenses section from a Java library's pom.xml file. Please consider updating the project build file to include the project's license, such as:

    <licenses>
      <license>
        <name>Apache License, Version 2.0</name>
        <url>https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt</url>
        <distribution>repo</distribution>
        <comments>A business-friendly OSS license</comments>
      </license>
    </licenses>

See https://github.com/oss-review-toolkit/ort/issues/5798

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