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[Bug] Legal and license information is not provided for Copilot artifacts

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
52/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
java
Domain
devtools

Research direction

Start in Eclipse's Help > About > Installation Details and reproduce the issue by filtering for Copilot under both Features and Plugins. Inspect how the Copilot feature and plugins expose their license and legal information, then verify that the License and Legal info controls display the expected information instead of a directory listing or disabled state.

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Description

bug

Environment

  • OS: irrelevant
  • Eclipse Version: irrelevant
  • Plugin Version: 0.20.0.202607290210_nightly (but is present in all existing versions)

Describe the bug
The legal and license information is not properly provided for Copilot feature and all Copilot plugins.

Expected

In Eclipse, go to Help -> About -> Installation Details.

  1. Under "Features" tab, type "Copilot" in the filter text and click on the "License" button. Instead of showing the license text, a plugin directory listing is shown.
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  1. Under "Plugins" tab, type "Copilot" in the filter text and observe that on all Copilot plugins the "Legal info" (which usually provides Copiright and license information) is disabled and doesn't provide any information.
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Dominant language
Java
Stars
125
Forks
63
Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
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