| /******************************************************************************* |
| * Copyright (c) 2008, 2010 EclipseSource and others. All rights reserved. This |
| * program and the accompanying materials are made available under the terms of |
| * the Eclipse Public License v1.0 which accompanies this distribution, and is |
| * available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html |
| * |
| * Contributors: |
| * EclipseSource - initial API and implementation |
| * IBM - ongoing development |
| ******************************************************************************/ |
| package org.eclipse.equinox.p2.metadata; |
| |
| import java.net.URI; |
| |
| /** |
| * The <code>ILicense</code> 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. |
| * |
| * @noimplement This interface is not intended to be implemented by clients. |
| * @noextend This interface is not intended to be extended by clients. |
| * @since 2.0 |
| */ |
| public interface ILicense { |
| |
| /** |
| * Returns the location of a document containing the full license. |
| * |
| * @return the location of the license document, or <code>null</code> |
| */ |
| public URI getLocation(); |
| |
| /** |
| * Returns the license body. |
| * @return the license body, never <code>null</code> |
| */ |
| public String getBody(); |
| |
| /** |
| * 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. |
| * |
| * @return the message digest as a <code>BigInteger</code>, never <code>null</code> |
| */ |
| public String getUUID(); |
| |
| /** |
| * Returns whether this license is equal to the given object. |
| * |
| * This method returns <i>true</i> if: |
| * <ul> |
| * <li> Both this object and the given object are of type ILicense |
| * <li> The result of <b>getDigest()</b> on both objects are equal |
| * </ul> |
| */ |
| public boolean equals(Object obj); |
| |
| } |