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Add license information to the jar files
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Description
Expected Behavior
Please add license information like the license.txt and notice.txt files to all the spring-security jar files. Other spring projects (e.g. boot and framework) contain that information in the /META-INF folder.
Current Behavior
Currently the spring-security jar files do not contain any license information.
Context
We use ScanCode Toolkit to automatically detect and document the licenses of libraries in our software.
https://scancode-toolkit.readthedocs.io/
Without packaged license information we need to analyse the licenses manually for each version update of the libraries.
The main project license documented in github is not always sufficient because some libraries repackage content with a different license.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by inspecting how Spring Security packages its jar files and compare their contents with other Spring projects, especially the /META-INF folder. Add license.txt and notice.txt to every Spring Security jar, then verify the packaged artifacts contain the license information needed by ScanCode Toolkit.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- build-system
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 52/100