On 5 August 2016 at 11:21, Guy Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? > > +1, that might even work on Windows.
-- Graham Bloice
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