Hi, On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 05:17:13PM -0400, Nick Black wrote: > Marc Haber left as an exercise for the reader: > > I don't have an overview about the tooling that is currently available > > to check the licenses of code in a source package. I would appreciate > > any pointers to tools that could help double-check debian/copyright to > > avoid wasting ftpmaster's time a second time and to get embarrassed a > > second time. I somebody wants to manually check, I would appreciate that > > as well. > > I believe "licensecheck" to be the canonical tool for this kind > of thing. > > LICENSECHECK(1p) User Contributed Perl Documentation > > NAME licensecheck - simple license checker for source files
after a second look, licensecheck doesn't look too good any more. It doesn't grok the quite common SPDX notation, and I would love a tool that also checks debian/copyright (it's machine readable for a reason) and tells me which files are not listed in there. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 6224 1600402 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 6224 1600421
