Honker

The Honker Gradle Plugin helps you assemble legal bits

WARNING Only handle The Apache Software License, version 2.0, for now.

Build script snippet for use in all Gradle versions >= 2.1:

plugins {
  id "org.nosphere.honker" version "0.4.0"
}

Build script snippet for previous Gradle versions

buildscript {
  repositories {
    gradlePluginPortal()
  }
  dependencies {
    classpath "gradle.plugin.org.nosphere.honker:honker-gradle:0.4.0"
  }
}

apply plugin: "org.nosphere.honker"

DSL Extension

honker {
    // Your project license
    license 'Apache 2'

    // Your project information, used to generate NOTICE files
    projectName 'Your Fancy Project'
    projectTimespan '2010-2015'
    projectOrganization 'ACME Inc.'

    // For dependencies that contains no licensing information (pom, manifest etc..)
    // you can define your licensing strategy, for example:
    licenseOverride { candidate ->
        if( candidate.group == 'something' && candidate.module == 'whatever' ) {
            candidate.license = 'BSD 3-Clause'
        }
    }
}

Usage

Check for licensing conflicts

Simply invoke the honkerCheck task.

To hook it into the default check task:

check.dependsOn honkerCheck

DEPENDENCIES, NOTICE and LICENSE in META-INF

sourceSets {
    main {
        output.dir( honkerGenDependencies.outputDir, builtBy: honkerGenDependencies )
        output.dir( honkerGenLicense.outputDir, builtBy: honkerGenLicense )
        output.dir( honkerGenNotice.outputDir, builtBy: honkerGenNotice )
    }
}

Compatibility matrix

Plugin	Min Java	Min Gradle	Max Gradle	Configuration Cache	Build Cache
0.4.0	1.8	5.x	7.x	🔴	🟢
0.3.2	1.8	5.x	7.x	🔴	🟢
0.2.3	1.7	2.14	6.x	🔴	🟢
0.1.5	1.6	2.14	4.x	🔴	🟢