devonfw guide

Standalone Command Line Java Tool

Importers for component/license information from

Maven

Gradle

NPM

CSV (e.g. for manual entry of data)

Rules processing (using Drools Rule Engine) controls the the different phases:

Normalizing / Enhancing of license information

Handling of multilicensing (including selection of applicable licenses) and re-licensing

Legal evaluation

Rules to be defined as Decision Tables

Sample Decision Tables included

Automatic download and file based caching of license texts

Allows manual editing / reformatting of license text

Output processing

Template based text (Velocity) and XLS generation

SQL based pre-processor (e.g. for filtering, aggregation)

Audit log which documents all applied rules for every item might be included in report

"Diff Mode" allows to mark data which has changed as compared to a previous run of Solicitor (in Velocity and XLS reporting)

Customization

Project specific configuration (containing e.g. reporting templates, decision tables) allows to override/amend builtin configuration

Builtin configuration might be overridden/extended by configuration data contained in a single extension file (ZIP format)

This allows to safely provide organization specific rules and reporting templates to all projects of an organization (e.g. to reflect the specific OSS usage policy of the organization)