If the project doesn't have "LICENSE" in root dir, please define all the license files in this project. OAT will check license files according to this rule.
1. task: OAT check thread. Each task will start a new thread.
2. task name: Task name.
3. task policy: Default policy for projects under this task. This field is required and the specified policy must be defined in policylist.
4. task filter: Default filefilter for projects under this task. This field is required and the specified filefilter must be defined in filefilterlist.
5. task project: Projects to be checked. The path field defines the source root dir of the project.
"compatibility" is used to check license compatibility in the specified path.
"license" is used to check source license header in the specified path.
"copyright" is used to check source copyright header in the specified path.
"import" is used to check source dependency in the specified path, such as import and include.
"filetype" is used to check file type in the specified path. Supported file types include archive and binary.
"filename" is used to check whether the specified file exists in the specified path (support projectroot in the default OAT.xml). Supported file names include LICENSE, README, README.OpenSource.
4. policyitem name: This field is used to define the license, copyright, "*" means match all, the "!" prefix means could not match this value. For example, "!GPL" means can not use GPL license.
5. policyitem path: This field is used to define the source file scope to apply this policyitem, the "!" prefix means exclude the files. For example, "!.*/lib/.*" means files in lib dir will be exclude while process this policyitem.
6. policyitem rule and group: These two fields are used together to merge policy results. "may" means that the result will be passed if any policyitem in the same group is passed.
7. policyitem filefilter: This field is used to bind filefilter which define filter rules.
8. filefilter: This field is used to define filter rules. filename is used to filter file name, and filepath is used to filter file path.