I've been spending a bunch of time collecting licenses and tracking down copyright ownership for our dependencies, and I want to make life easier for myself (and others in the future).
I'd like to propose the use of Apache Wisker [1] to build our LICENSE and NOTICE files going forward. To start with, I'd create the license and notice metadata from the material that I've gathered. I should be able to generate the binary and source distro files from that metadata. Long term, I'd love if we integrated both Rat and Wisker into our build system. Leaving the discussion about *which* system to use... Rat currently has plugins for Ant and Maven, and Wisker has a plugin for Maven. Both have command line options though, which we could use in whatever system we ended up using. I'm going to be using Wisker to at least help in my own sanity over the next couple of days, but (unless there are any objections) can we agree to make it the "official" license tracking mechanism for the project. Of course, this all assumes that I can get it working locally... ;-) -chip [1] - http://creadur.apache.org/whisker/
