On Aug 5, 2016, at 2:52 AM, Graham Bloice <[email protected]> wrote:

> I did look a bit for licensecheck and it appears to be a Perl script 
> available as a Debian (and RPM) package devscripts as suggested by João, a 
> package for Debian package maintainers.  As such, it isn't available for 
> Windows.  The checklicenses.py script should probably check for the existence 
> of licensecheck before trying to open it as a subprocess.

Playing the fun game called "find the upstream" found

        http://search.cpan.org/~jonass/App-Licensecheck-v3.0.2/bin/licensecheck

but that version appears to credit Jonas Smedegaard as one of the developers, 
while the version from Debian Jessie doesn't, so that doesn't appear to be the 
upstream version from Jessie.  I don't know whether Smedegaard and the Debian 
folk both started with the same earlier version but didn't end up there.

Should we just grab some version that works and include it in the tools 
directory, so that we don't get mysterious failures when updating the version 
of Ubuntu on the buildbot and don't fail - or require somebody to dig up or 
install via CPAN - on systems that don't distribute it?
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