Currently, there are templates which look something like this:

<#assign licenseFirst = "/*">
<#assign licensePrefix = " * ">
<#assign licenseLast = " */">
<#include "${project.licensePath}">

<#if package?? && package != "">
package ${package};
...

The problem with this approach is that there's no way *not* to skip a line after the license text. For example, I've created a blank license file called "license-none.txt" which I want to use when no license is required. The resulting file has a blank line at the top, before the "package" statement.

Depending on how you look at it, there are two ways of fixing this. You could consider it a bug that the formatter doesn't remove the blank line and fix it there, or tweak the templates so they look like this and add a blank line in the license files:


<#assign licenseFirst = "/*">
<#assign licensePrefix = " * ">
<#assign licenseLast = " */">
<#include "${project.licensePath}">
<#if package?? && package != "">
package ${package};
...

Of course, if there's a better way I'm not aware of to specify no license, please let me know. :)