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Besides of the bug

Any kind of definition is evaluated as a string and the that string shall :

• The string can match the Short ID or the License URL in the Built-In License Headers

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• The string can be a file path relative to the project dir.
• The string can

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• be a file path relative to the root project dir. (When this is released:

  Jira
  server ASF JIRA columns key,summary,type,created,updated,due,assignee,reporter,priority,status,resolution serverId 5aa69414-a9e9-3523-82ec-879b028fb15b key NETBEANS-2756

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• The string can be point to an absolute file path.
  (Can be useful as ext.license = file("$rootDir/license.header") in the root build.gradle of a multi-module projects till NETBEANS-2756 in place.)

The properties are evaluated in the following order:

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See the blog entry, however it is the project.license Ant property which is being read and evaluated for the license information.

Built-In License Headers