Re: Check license and copyright of files in entire tree (was: Proposed new package, bugs-everywhere_0.0.193-1.1)
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 11:27:18PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> Emilio, and everyone: a reminder to please continue following
> <URL:http://www.debian.org/MailingLists#codeofconduct>. In particular,
> please don't send individual copies of messages also sent to the list,
> since I haven't asked for that.
>
>
> Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@ubuntu.com> writes:
>
> > Ben Finney wrote:
> > > Good catch. I'll have to gather the copyright notices properly
> > > from the whole tree.
> >
> > Have a look at `licensecheck -R *` (in case you haven't yet), very
> > useful script for these purposes.
>
> Indeed, I wasn't aware of that. In this case, it's even more useful
> for me to run:
>
> $ licensecheck --recursive --copyright .
Just don't forget that it will skip a lot of file types by default.
Mike
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