License information

[lukaciko]

I'm curious to know if handling 3rd party software licenses is on the roadmap and what the recommended ways of handling licenses are.

Ideally the generated targets would use rules_license to specify what licenses they're using and we'd get an easy way to check licenses and gather license information. I see that rules_license is still under development and that there is also a possibly pending Bazel External Dependencies Overhaul which might affect how licenses are configured (and this project in a big way). Alternatively the rules could pick up licenses in the POM files and publish those in tags, in addition to maven_coordinates.

There is an override_license_types argument in the maven_artifact spec which doesn't seem to do much. I'm assuming the autodetection was not implemented.

https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_jvm_external/blob/5fe826e1757815699a8fdb302512dbb385d7752b/specs.bzl#L44