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Support author name in LicenseHeaderStep

See original GitHub issue

Some license texts include the name of the file’s initial creator. This is currently not possible to do with the LicenseHeaderStep. Maybe the step could should work with templates rather than constant strings, e,g,

    licenseHeader('/* Copyright ${year} ${author}*/',
                      [year: java.time.LocalDate.now().year, author: 'John Doe'])

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Created 5 years ago
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jochenbergercommented, Nov 3, 2022

I only just noticed that there is a misunderstanding. This is not about updating the text with the name of the last committer. It’s about the initial license creation. My use-case dictates that the initial creator’s name be put into the license text and that it stay the same when the license is updated.

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nedtwiggcommented, Nov 3, 2022

Initial license creation is probably the most popular kind that people want. I know that the Eclipse IDE projects like their heads to include a list of everyone who has worked on the file, with (C) 202x, 202x for each year in which that person worked on it. Happy to take a PR which implements any mode.