2070581 - Create a linter to catch and report Apache 2.0 license usage

Status: NEW

(Firefox for Android :: Tooling, task, P3)

Description

[Ansh Sinha [:Ansh]]

The Apache 2.0 license can be automatically added to XML files (e.g. when adding SVGs to the codebase), and we should be using the Mozilla license instead. The task is to a write a linter to detect Apache 2.0 license usage.

Apache 2.0 license:

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  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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