yudhir / license-tools-plugin

Gradle plugin to check library licenses and generate license pages.

Android License Tools Plugin

Gradle Plugin to check library licenses and generate license pages.

• ./gradlew checkLicenses to check licenses in dependencies
• ./gradlew generateLicensePage to generate a license page licenses.html
• ./gradlew generateLicenseJson to generate a license json file licenses.json

Setup

This plugin requires JDK8 (1.8.0 or later).

buildscript {
    repositories {
        jcenter()
    }

    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.cookpad.android.licensetools:license-tools-plugin:0.17.0'
    }
}

apply plugin: 'com.cookpad.android.licensetools'

See [example/build.gradle] for example.

How To USe

Run the checkLicenses task

You will see the following messages by ./gradlew checkLicenses:

# Libraries not listed:
- artifact: com.android.support:support-v4:+
  name: #NAME#
  copyrightHolder: #AUTHOR#
  license: No license found
- artifact: com.android.support:animated-vector-drawable:+
  name: #NAME#
  copyrightHolder: #AUTHOR#
  license: No license found
- artifact: io.reactivex:rxjava:+
  name: #NAME#
  copyrightHolder: #AUTHOR#
  license: apache2

Add library licenses to app/licenses.yml

Then, Create app/licenses.yml, and add libraries listed the above with required fields:

- artifact: com.android.support:+:+
  name: Android Support Libraries
  copyrightHolder: The Android Open Source Project
  license: apache2
- artifact: io.reactivex:rxjava:+
  name: RxJava
  copyrightHolder: Netflix, Inc.
  license: apache2

You can use wildcards in artifact names and versions. You'll know the Android support libraries are groupd in com.android.support so you use com.android.support:+:+ here.

Then, ./gradlew checkLicenses will passes.

Generate licenses.html by the generateLicensePage task

./gradlew generateLicensePage generates app/src/main/assets/licenses.html.

This plugin does not provide Activity nor Fragment to show licenses.html. You should add it by yourself.

example/MainActivity is an example.

DataSet Format

Required Fields

• artifact
• name
• Eighter copyrightHolder, author, authors or notice

Optional Fields

• year to indicate copyright years
• skip to skip generating liense entries (for proprietary libraries)

Example

- artifact: com.android.support:+:+
  name: Android Support Libraries
  copyrightHolder: The Android Open Source Project
  license: apache2
- artifact: org.abego.treelayout:org.abego.treelayout.core:+
  name: abego TreeLayout
  copyrightHolder: abego Software
  license: bsd_3_clauses
- artifact: io.reactivex:rxjava:+
  name: RxJava
  copyrightHolder: Netflix, Inc.
  license: apache2
- artifact: com.tunnelvisionlabs:antlr4-runtime:4.5
  name: ANTLR4
  authors:
    - Terence Parr
    - Sam Harwell
  license: bsd_3_clauses
- artifact: com.github.gfx.android.orma:+:+
  name: Android Orma
  notice: |
    Copyright (c) 2015 FUJI Goro (gfx)
    SQLite.g4 is: Copyright (c) 2014 by Bart Kiers
  license: apache_2
- artifact: io.reactivex:rxandroid:1.1.0
  name: RxAndroid
  copyrightHolder: The RxAndroid authors
  license: apache2
- artifact: license-tools-plugin:example-dep:+
  skip: true

See Also

• オープンソースライセンスの管理を楽にする -Android アプリ編 - クックパッド開発者ブログ

For Developers

Release Engineering

To bump versions:

./gradlew bumpPatch
./gradlew bumpMinor
./gradlew bumpMajor

To test artifacts:

make check

To publish artifacts:

make publish

Keep CHANGES.md up-to-date.

Coryright and License

Copyright (c) 2016 Coopkad Inc.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.