Package org.eclipse.equinox.p2.metadata
Interface ILicense
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public interface ILicense
TheILicense
interface represents a software license. A license has required body text which may be the full text or an annotation. An optional URL field can be specified which links to full text. Licenses can be easily compared using their digests. Licenses can be added to arbitrary installable units, and will typically be displayed to end users and require explicit agreement before installation proceeds.Instances of this class are handle objects and do not necessarily reflect entities that exist in any particular profile or repository. These handle objects can be created using
MetadataFactory
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- 2.0
- Restriction:
- This interface is not intended to be implemented by clients.
- Restriction:
- This interface is not intended to be extended by clients.
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Method Summary
All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods Modifier and Type Method Description boolean
equals(Object obj)
Returns whether this license is equal to the given object.String
getBody()
Returns the license body.URI
getLocation()
Returns the location of a document containing the full license.String
getUUID()
Returns the message digest of the license body.
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Method Detail
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getLocation
URI getLocation()
Returns the location of a document containing the full license.- Returns:
- the location of the license document, or
null
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getBody
String getBody()
Returns the license body.- Returns:
- the license body, never
null
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getUUID
String getUUID()
Returns the message digest of the license body. The digest is calculated on a normalized version of the license where all whitespace has been reduced to one space.- Returns:
- the message digest as a
BigInteger
, nevernull
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