mojohaus/license-maven-plugin

Infer "licenseName" from POM "licenses.license.name"

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#155 opened on Nov 7, 2018

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Description

When executing license:update-project-license goal with not defined licenseName it fails with the following message:

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.codehaus.mojo:license-maven-plugin:1.16:update-project-license (default): could not init goal UpdateProjectLicenseMojo for reason : licenseName can not be null, nor empty

It would be nice if plugin could learn/infer license name from POM's licenses → license → name or url.

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Look at the UpdateProjectLicenseMojo class to see where licenseName is required, then add logic to read from the project's POM model (licenses.license.name) if not set. Use MavenProject.getLicenses() to retrieve licenses list and extract the first license name or URL. Ensure the change is backward compatible.
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java
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build system
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JavaMaven
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