Gradle License Plugin

This plugin provides a task to generate a HTML license report based on the configuration. (eg. licenseDebugReport for all debug dependencies in an Android project).

Applying this to an Android or Java project will generate a the license file(open_source_licenses.html) in the <project>/build/reports/licenses/.

Also, for Android projects the license HTML file will be copied to <project>/src/main/assets/.

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Release:

buildscript {
  repositories {
    jcenter()
  }

  dependencies {
    classpath "com.jaredsburrows:gradle-license-plugin:0.8.41"
  }
}

apply plugin: "com.android.application" // or "java-library"
apply plugin: "com.jaredsburrows.license"

Release versions are available in the JFrog Bintray repository: https://bintray.com/jaredsburrows/maven/gradle-license-plugin

Snapshot:

buildscript {
  repositories {
    maven { url "https://oss.jfrog.org/artifactory/oss-snapshot-local/" }
  }

  dependencies {
    classpath "com.jaredsburrows:gradle-license-plugin:0.8.42-SNAPSHOT"
  }
}

apply plugin: "com.android.application" // or "java-library"
apply plugin: "com.jaredsburrows.license"

Snapshot versions are available in the JFrog Artifactory repository: https://oss.jfrog.org/webapp/#/builds/gradle-license-plugin

Tasks

license${variant}Report for Android
licenseReport for Java

Generates a HTML report of the all open source licenses. (eg. licenseDebugReport for all debug dependencies in an Android project).

Example build.gradle:

dependencies {
  compile "com.android.support:design:26.1.0"
  compile "pl.droidsonroids.gif:android-gif-drawable:1.2.3"
}

HTML:

<html>
  <head>
    <style>body{font-family: sans-serif} pre{background-color: #eeeeee; padding: 1em; white-space: pre-wrap}</style>
    <title>Open source licenses</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h3>Notice for packages:</h3>
    <ul>
      <li>
        <a href='#-989315363'>Android GIF Drawable Library</a>
      </li>
      <a name='-989315363' />
      <pre>mit.txt here</pre>
      <li>
        <a href='#1288284111'>Design</a>
      </li>
      <a name='1288284111' />
      <pre>apache-2.0.txt here</pre>
    </ul>
  </body>
</html>

JSON:

[
  {
    "project": "Android GIF Drawable Library",
    "description": "Views and Drawable for displaying animated GIFs for Android",
    "version": "1.2.3",
    "developers": [
      "Karol Wrótniak"
    ],
    "url": "https://github.com/koral--/android-gif-drawable",
    "year": null,
    "licenses": [
      {
        "license": "The MIT License",
        "license_url": "http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "project": "Design",
    "description": null,
    "version": "26.1.0",
    "developers": [
        
    ],
    "url": null,
    "year": null,
    "licenses": [
      {
        "license": "The Apache Software License",
        "license_url": "http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt"
      }
    ]
  }
]

Configuration

The plugin can be configured to generate specific reports and automatically copy the reports to the assets directory (Android projects only). The default behaviours are:

Java projects: Generate both the HTML report and the JSON report.
Android projects: Generate both the HTML report and the JSON report, and copy the HTML report to the assets directory.

To override the defaults, add the licenseReport configuration closure to the build script.

apply plugin: "com.jaredsburrows.license"

licenseReport {
    generateHtmlReport = false
    generateJsonReport = true
    
    // These options are ignored for Java projects
    copyHtmlReportToAssets = true
    copyJsonReportToAssets = false
}

The copyHtmlReportToAssets option in the above example would have no effect since the HTML report is disabled.

Usage

Create an open source dialog

public static class OpenSourceLicensesDialog extends DialogFragment {

  public OpenSourceLicensesDialog() {
  }

  @Override
  public Dialog onCreateDialog(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    final WebView webView = new WebView(getActivity());
    webView.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/open_source_licenses.html");

    return new AlertDialog.Builder(getActivity())
      .setTitle("Open Source Licenses")
      .setView(webView)
      .setPositiveButton(R.string.ok, new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
        public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
          dialog.dismiss();
        }
      }
    )
    .create();
  }
}

How to use it

public static void showOpenSourceLicenses(Activity activity) {
  final FragmentManager fm = activity.getFragmentManager();
  final FragmentTransaction ft = fm.beginTransaction();
  final Fragment prev = fm.findFragmentByTag("dialog_licenses");
  if (prev != null) {
    ft.remove(prev);
  }
  ft.addToBackStack(null);

  new OpenSourceLicensesDialog().show(ft, "dialog_licenses");
}

Source: https://github.com/google/iosched/blob/2531cbdbe27e5795eb78bf47d27e8c1be494aad4/android/src/main/java/com/google/samples/apps/iosched/util/AboutUtils.java#L52

Source: https://www.bignerdranch.com/blog/open-source-licenses-and-android/

License

Copyright (C) 2016 Jared Burrows

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.

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