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  2. JENKINS-30282

Jenkins Plugin HP Application Automation Tools provides no OSS License information.

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      We are trying to evaluate HP Application Automation Tools Jenkins Plugin Version 3.0.7 for use in our environment. Although the Plugin home page states "This plugin is open source," no OSS License is declared or provided:

      • Nothing on the Project Home Page.
      • It's a Maven Project, and Maven metadata is provided in the HPI file, but the pom.xml contains no license declaration.
      • The HPI file contains a WEB-INF/license.xml file, but no license URL is provided for the artifact, only for its dependencies.
      • No source code is available in Jenkins GitHub, nor in Hudson SVN.

      Finally found the source code in a non-Jenkins-standard GitHub Repository: https://github.com/hpsa/hp-application-automation-tools-plugin.

      I found the following non-standard (not Java file header, not Javadoc) comments at the beginning of AlmToolsUtils.java:

      // (c) Copyright 2012 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. 
// Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
// The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
// THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

      Again, this is not a standard OSS License.

            yafim_kazak Yafim Kazak
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