[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: Help on submissions.

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 06:24:49AM -0700, Leo Jackson wrote:
> Sylvain,
> 
> Yes I can Start the coding.

Great! :)

> it will check version v2 and v3 and 3 had the end from address to author 
> contact and email right.

The contact information need not be present in all files, for example
it can just be in README.

We don't check for contact information during the project reviews.

> And version 2 and earlier has address of fsf old. I can check for authors & 
> gpl in all headers, and all files It. Do you also want lgpl and the doc 
> license check. The name of it is gnulicenseck.

Check LGPL and GFDL would be nice indeed.

> PS gnulicenseck options 
> -a all eg: cpp, c, h, hpp, Authors any spelling and letter type. cap small.
> -d docs only eg: copying license text etc.
> -e check java, class files etc.
> -r replace v2 to v3 
> -R Add all files, headers to a programs source etc. to comply with v3 or   
> lic.data file link. 
> 
> eg: gnulicenseck -R lgpl.dat program-1a-tar.gz, *.bz2 *.zip, *.jar, *.cat, 
> compression types almost all.
> 
> Output: license mit found replace with version GPLv3 Yes/No
> $# yes ###############################
> complete files all updates files removed to *.gz turn back
> use. fix file.gz program or patch -p0 fix($name).patch.gz. 
> 
> gnulicenseck -a %{name}-%{version}.compression type
> 
> eg: gnulicenseck -a program.tar.gz
> 
> Output: Complete verified GPLv2 update to GPLv3. update yes/no
> no
> 
> license GPLv2 good.
> 
> eg: gnulicenseck -a program.tar.gz
> if errors then
> does not comply with licenses.
> 
> 
> Data files can be easly created add to config.
> 
> In program addlicense answer questions add license file done.
> 
> what it checks
> 
> Program |
>         |
> main dir---authors file, license file, copying file, program files. EOF, EOD,
> next-----
> next-----etc.
> this is not an output.
> 
> Thank You,

Automatically updating the license is a nice feature.

I'm not sure I understood everything you wrote though :/

-- 
Sylvain