Put LICENSE to the JAR

[bespaltovyj]

I use gradle plugin for automatic check dependencies licenses. But your library not verified, because in your jar file license not present.
Can you put license to JAR file?

[oshai]

Hi, thanks for reporting the issue!
I am not aware of any standard of adding the license file to the jar. Can you point out such?
Maybe a better idea will be that the gradle plugin will look also on github to check for license file?

[BorzdeG]

https://github.com/merkle-open/gradle-license-enforce-plugin fetches information from Maven POM file

[bespaltovyj]

I am not aware of any standard of adding the license file to the jar. Can you point out such?

I'm not good at software licensing, but in apache license page
"Include a copy of the Apache License, typically in a file called LICENSE, in your work"

Distributing source code and binary files are two different things and in both cases you need a license file(in source code is present). Most likely, the licenses in maven pom refer only to the maven repository and the correct check is checking the license file. But I`m not suer whether it is necessary to put the linece file into the jar.

https://github.com/merkle-open/gradle-license-enforce-plugin fetches information from Maven POM file

Thanks for link, I chose my plugin because it is more popular and I hope that its support will not be discontinued.

[oshai]

So it sounds like having it in the pom.xml is enough (and more standard).

[choweiyuan]

I use the same https://github.com/jk1/Gradle-License-Report plugin to check dependencies license and ran into the same problem. Interestingly this wasn't a problem back in v1.x.x, problem starts from v2 onwards

Either way would be good to have this fixed

[bespaltovyj]

I can fix this problem if the owners of the project don't mind.

[oshai]

sure, go ahead and send a PR.

[bespaltovyj]

The problem turned out to be more complicated than I expected.
And the main reason is that kotlin-logging jar is a kotlin multiplatform jar. And the plugin can't read its licenses.

The solution to this problem is to change the type of dependency to kotlin-logging-jvm.
But I still did a PR with the addition of a license, because it seems right to me.

P.S. the plugin is able to process the license from the POM.

[oshai]

solved in #191 version 2.0.12.