BP-LICENSE_FINDER-STEP

Overview

This BP step leverages License Finder

LicenseFinder works with your package managers to find dependencies, detect the licenses of the packages in them, compare those licenses against a user-defined list of permitted licenses, and give you an actionable exception report.

Setup

• Clone the code available at BP-LICENSE_FINDER-STEP
• Build the docker image

git submodule init
git submodule update
docker build -t ot/license_finder:0.1 .

• Do local testing

docker run -it -v $PWD:/src -e WORKSPACE=/ -e CODEBASE_DIR=src ot/license_finder

• Register License Finder Step in BP

• Update your job template to leverage the BP step

  • First of all, login to your Buildpiper server.

  • Click on the Step Catalogs option.

  
  • Then click on the New Step option.

  

  • Now entry the Step Name and Step Code.

  • Select the Step Category.

  

  • Select the Step Type.

  

  • Add the Add Mount Details and select the Mount Name from the drop down.

  

  • Now select the Env. build data path and add the Environment Variable.

  

  • After providing all the requried fields now click on the Save option

  • And save the Step.

Additional Info

• License Finder Step comes with a global list of approvate licences available at Whitelisted Licenses
  • MIT
  • Apache 2.0
  • The GNU General Public License, Version 2
  • LGPL
  • GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
  • Common Public License Version 1.0
  • CDDL + GPLv2 with classpath exception
  • GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1
  • Public Domain