Support third party licenses

[joostfunkekupper]

This PR is based on the open #143 which hasn't been updated in a while. I've also included some instructions on how to manually add third party licenses that were not picked up through Maven.

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[joostfunkekupper]

Hi @ganadist, would you be interested in approving the use of your commits? I'm really hoping to get your changes approved and merged, since it's been very useful in our production apps.

[ganadist]

Thank you!

[rekire]

Any chance that you can add the dependency management of the play services like in LicensesTask.addGooglePlayServiceLicenses(...)?

[joostfunkekupper]

Any chance that you can add the dependency management of the play services like in LicensesTask.addGooglePlayServiceLicenses(...)?

Could you elaborate? The Google Play Services licenses are already being added by this library.

[rekire]

I mean that any dependency can use that way to add own licenses with those two files. It should be simple to check if those two files exists in any dependency and not exclusive for the play services dependencies.

[rekire]

By the way I found a better way for what I'm aiming I created the PR #191 that will take the name directly from the POM file. Never mind my request. :-)

[joostfunkekupper]

By the way I found a better way for what I'm aiming I created the PR #191 that will take the name directly from the POM file. Never mind my request. :-)

Yeah right, nice.

[rekire]

@joostfunkekupper you need to update/rebase your PR. Mine was merged in the meantime. You might should add also one or more tests to make sure that everything works as expected.

[joostfunkekupper]

Thanks @rekire for letting me know. I'll try and get onto that asap.

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[joostfunkekupper]

Sorry @ganadist, your reply should only include @googlebot I consent. and nothing else :) The bot isn't very smart

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[ganadist]

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[joostfunkekupper]

Hi @caller9, this PR is ready to be reviewed. Documentation and test case are included.

[juliankotrba]

Hi @caller9, any update on this PR? I would really appreciate if the changes from @joostfunkekupper and @ganadist get merged soon. Thanks!

cc @PaulRashidi

[mobilemarines]

Hey guys, thanks for this important feature.
I would really appreciate a release as https://github.com/cookpad/LicenseToolsPlugin was deprecated in favor of this license plugin.
It's open for quite some time and licenses are a legal requirement. So I think it would help a lot of people to provide this feature soon because alternatives are deprecated.
Especially hybrid apps use licenses outside the normal scope and need to show them, too.

[wseemann]

Hey guys, thanks for this important feature. I would really appreciate a release as https://github.com/cookpad/LicenseToolsPlugin was deprecated in favor of this license plugin. It's open for quite some time and licenses are a legal requirement. So I think it would help a lot of people to provide this feature soon because alternatives are deprecated. Especially hybrid apps use licenses outside the normal scope and need to show them, too.

@mobilemarines I recommend using AboutLibraries. It's fully Open Source (unlike this plugin), it's actively maintained, and provides the exact same functionality as the play services plugin.