Le Tuesday 10 July 2012 16:54:00, Felipe Sateler a écrit : > Use cases for a tool that actually traverses the tree, but need not do step > 3: > > 1. When refactoring copyright files, making sure no unintended > consequences have been achieved. Note that the actual globbing is not > necesarily trivial for a human being to do correctly. > > 2. When updating a package to a new upstream version, in conjunction > with licensecheck2dep5, compare the licenses of new/removed files, > perhaps even copyright notices have changed. This is definitely not > trivial to do in large packages by diffing the 2 generated files. > > Another use case (that does not need a second copyright file) is to > (via a similar gui to the current cme edit gui) check what license is > assigned to individual files. ok. you've convinced me that such a tool would indeed be valuable, although its implementation can be tricky. Unfortunately, I don't have the time do it. Although I can give advices or some help (including tweaking cme) if someones want to tackle this task. Any volunteer ? Dominique All the best
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