mojohaus/license-maven-plugin

Allow license selection when project includes multiple licenses

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#88 opened on May 12, 2017

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Description

When running the third-party goal and pulling in a dependency which allows multiple license choices, it would be nice if you could "choose" one the licenses to be the one displayed in the output file (since that is what you are doing anyway when you include the project).

It seems like the "overrideFile" would potentially provide this functionality, but it doesn't seem to work that way in practice (i.e. providing a single override does not remove the other license from the output list).

Alternately, "excludeLicenses" could do this. if a project has multiple licenses and one of them is excluded, just include the project using only the non-excluded license. again, it doesn't seem to work that way today.

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Research direction
Examine how the plugin currently handles multiple licenses for a dependency, particularly in the overrideFile and excludeLicenses logic. Consider implementing a mechanism to select one license when multiple are present.
Tech stack
java
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build system
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Feature
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3
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1-2 days
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Clear
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MavenJava
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60