From fc3646e5395eb92c8cf08c8ab4750b68fcb78acc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brett Leslie Porter <brett@apache.org>
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 00:23:03 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] PR: MNG-1321 Submitted by:  	 Bruno Essmann recognise
 file:// url's without a hostname for the license

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/components/trunk@330394 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---
 .../maven/report/projectinfo/LicenseReport.java     | 13 ++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/maven-plugins/maven-project-info-reports-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/report/projectinfo/LicenseReport.java b/maven-plugins/maven-project-info-reports-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/report/projectinfo/LicenseReport.java
index 72b5521602..2df6014475 100644
--- a/maven-plugins/maven-project-info-reports-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/report/projectinfo/LicenseReport.java
+++ b/maven-plugins/maven-project-info-reports-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/report/projectinfo/LicenseReport.java
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ public class LicenseReport
 
     /**
      * Whether the system is currently offline.
+     *
      * @parameter expression="${settings.offline}"
      */
     private boolean offline;
@@ -218,7 +219,11 @@ public class LicenseReport
 
                 URL licenseUrl = null;
                 UrlValidator urlValidator = new UrlValidator( UrlValidator.ALLOW_ALL_SCHEMES );
-                if ( urlValidator.isValid( url ) )
+                // UrlValidator does not accept file URLs because the file
+                // URLs do not contain a valid authority (no hostname).
+                // As a workaround accept license URLs that start with the 
+                // file scheme.
+                if ( urlValidator.isValid( url ) || url.startsWith( "file://" ) )
                 {
                     try
                     {
@@ -234,6 +239,12 @@ public class LicenseReport
                 {
                     File licenseFile = new File( project.getBasedir(), url );
                     if ( !licenseFile.exists() )
+                    {
+                        // Workaround to allow absolute path names while
+                        // staying compatible with the way it was...
+                        licenseFile = new File( url );
+                    }
+                    if ( !licenseFile.exists() )
                     {
                         throw new MissingResourceException(
                             "Maven can't find the file " + licenseFile + " on the system.", null, null );