<p dir="auto"><strong><a href="https://jira.spring.io/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=idcmp" rel="nofollow">JAmes Atwill</a></strong> opened <strong><a href="https://jira.spring.io/browse/SPR-8927?redirect=false" rel="nofollow">SPR-8927</a></strong> and commented</p>
<p dir="auto">Hello, we're working on some tooling to ensure none of our dependencies are GPL. To do this, we have a maven plugin that walks through projects and looks at the &lt;license/&gt; block of the projects to ensure they're whitelisted.</p>
<p dir="auto">Many projects don't have &lt;license/&gt; blocks, but they're super quick to add.</p>
<p dir="auto">Estimate assumes doing all poms in bulk manually and waiting for a CI to push out a new snapshot.</p>
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<p dir="auto"><strong>Referenced from:</strong> commits <a class="commit-link" data-hovercard-type="commit" data-hovercard-url="https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/commit/87a021d5c9b25d2e7785bbecbd4e668b2091d4c3/hovercard" href="https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/commit/87a021d5c9b25d2e7785bbecbd4e668b2091d4c3"><tt>87a021d</tt></a></p>
<p dir="auto">1 votes, 1 watchers</p>
<p dir="auto"><strong><a href="https://jira.spring.io/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=sslavic" rel="nofollow">Stevo Slavić</a></strong> opened <strong><a href="https://jira.spring.io/browse/SPR-5848?redirect=false" rel="nofollow">SPR-5848</a></strong> and commented</p>
<p dir="auto">Please include license info in the project maven artifacts pom. Since project is licensed under Apache License 2.0 adding following to the pom should do:</p>
<div class="snippet-clipboard-content notranslate position-relative overflow-auto" data-snippet-clipboard-copy-content="&lt;licenses&gt;
	&lt;license&gt;
		&lt;name&gt;The Apache Software License, Version 2.0&lt;/name&gt;
		&lt;url&gt;http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt&lt;/url&gt;
		&lt;distribution&gt;repo&lt;/distribution&gt;
	&lt;/license&gt;
&lt;/licenses&gt;"><pre class="notranslate"><code class="notranslate">&lt;licenses&gt;
	&lt;license&gt;
		&lt;name&gt;The Apache Software License, Version 2.0&lt;/name&gt;
		&lt;url&gt;http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt&lt;/url&gt;
		&lt;distribution&gt;repo&lt;/distribution&gt;
	&lt;/license&gt;
&lt;/licenses&gt;
</code></pre></div>
<p dir="auto">All this will improve how dependency to this project artifacts is treated by all sorts of maven plug-ins and tools, like project info dependency report plugin, maven jboss license plugin, etc.</p>
<p dir="auto">This should be applied to all sub-frameworks of spring framework as well. Maybe a spring parent module could be created for reuse, or org.apache:apache could be set as parent.</p>
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<p dir="auto"><strong>Affects:</strong> 3.0 M3</p>