Re: How to write a machine-readable debian/copyright file?

[Vincent Cheng <vincentc1208@gmail.com>]

Hi Francesco,

On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Francesco Poli
<invernomuto@paranoici.org> wrote:
<snip>
> So the question is: is there any general purpose tool that scans a
> directory tree, detects the copyright notice and license of each file,
> reorganizes and groups everything, and writes a machine-readable
> debian/copyright file?

Is this what you are looking for?

$ licensecheck --copyright -r . | /usr/lib/cdbs/licensecheck2dep5 >
debian/copyright

You definitely still need to manually check the copyright file
afterwards for any errors, of course.

Regards,
Vincent