Package org.eclipse.equinox.p2.metadata
Interface ILicense
public interface ILicense
The
ILicense
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
.
- Since:
- 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 Details
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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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equals
Returns whether this license is equal to the given object. This method returns true if:- Both this object and the given object are of type ILicense
- The result of getDigest() on both objects are equal
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