Goals available for this plugin:
| Goal | Description |
|---|---|
| license:add-third-party | Goal to generate the third-party license file.
This file contains a list of the dependencies and their
licenses. Each dependency and it's license is displayed on a single
line in the format (<license-name>) <project-name> <groupId>:<artifactId>:<version> - <project-url>It will also copy it in the class-path (says add the generated directory as a resource of the build). |
| license:aggregate-add-third-party | This aggregator goal (will be executed only once and only on pom
projects) executed the add-third-party on all his
modules (in a parellel build cycle) then aggreates all the
third-party files in final one in the pom project. |
| license:comment-style-list | Displays all the available comment style to box file headers. |
| license:download-licenses | Download the license files of all the current project's dependencies, and generate a summary file containing a list of all dependencies and their licenses. |
| license:help | Display help information on license-maven-plugin. Call mvn license:help -Ddetail=true -Dgoal=<goal-name>to display parameter details. |
| license:license-list | Display all available licenses. |
| license:update-file-header | The goal to update (or add) the header on project source files.
This goal replace the update-header goal which
can not deal with Copyright.
This goal use a specific project file descriptor
project.xml to describe all files to update for a
whole project. |
| license:update-project-license | Updates (or creates) the main project license file according to the
given license defines as licenseName.
Can also generate a bundled license file (to avoid collision
names in class-path). This file is by default generated in
META-INF class-path directory. |
The following specifies the minimum requirements to run this Maven plugin:
| Maven | 2.2.1 |
| JDK | 1.6 |
| Memory | No minimum requirement. |
| Disk Space | No minimum requirement. |
You should specify the version in your project's plugin configuration:
<project>
...
<build>
<!-- To define the plugin version in your parent POM -->
<pluginManagement>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.kuali.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>license-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.6.3</version>
</plugin>
...
</plugins>
</pluginManagement>
<!-- To use the plugin goals in your POM or parent POM -->
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.kuali.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>license-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.6.3</version>
</plugin>
...
</plugins>
</build>
...
</project>
For more information, see "Guide to Configuring Plug-ins"