[Savannah-hackers] Re: copyright/license utility

[Mathieu Roy]

Ok, it seems interesting and could help in project approval task.

Is it packaged or something? Is it perl, shell?

Aubrey Jaffer <address@hidden> said:

>  | From: Mathieu Roy <address@hidden>
>  | Date: 16 Nov 2002 18:52:11 +0100
>  | 
>  | Aubrey Jaffer <address@hidden> said:
>  | 
>  | > I am writing a script which discovers copyright and public-domain
>  | > notices in source files.  It occurred to me that someone at GNU might
>  | > already have done this, since you check software project copyrights.
>  | > Do you know of tools for checking copyrights or licenses?
>  | 
>  | What do you means by "discovering copyright"? 
> 
> My "copyrights" program searches through the given files looking for
> "copyright", "Copr.", "&#169;", or "©" (followed by years and name of
> holder in either order).  It also recognizes the phrase "public
> domain".  For each file it reports multiple copyright lines if they
> differ; ent.scm, README, and wb.texi are examples of this in the "wb"
> listing appended.
> 
> I used the term "discovering copyright" because my program does not
> rely on the source file being in any special (cooperative) format.  In
> addition to scripts, C, Scheme, info, texinfo, postscript, plaintext,
> and Makefiles, it correctly extracts copyrights from comment fields in
> MIDI and JPEG files.
> 
> I might also add an option so that "copyrights" finds any close
> matches for the text immediately following a copyright among the
> license texts collected on
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html.
> 
>                             -=-=-=-=-
> 
> cd ~/wb/
> cvsfiles ./ | copyrights -
> rel.scm:
> COPYING:4:Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> schlep.typ:
> all.scm:2:Copyright (c) 1991, 1992, 1993, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> db.c:2:Copyright (c) 1991, 1992, 1993, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> db.scm:2:Copyright (c) 1991, 1992, 1993, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> test2.scm:2:Copyright (c) 1991, 1992, 1993, 2000 Free Software Foundation, 
> Inc.
> wbsys.c:2:Copyright (c) 1991, 1992, 1993, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> wbsys.h:2:Copyright (c) 1991, 1992, 1993, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> example.scm:2:Copyright (c) 1991, 1992, 1993, 2000 Free Software Foundation, 
> Inc.
> blink.scm:2:Copyright (c) 1991, 1992, 1993, 2000 Free Software Foundation, 
> Inc.
> blkio.scm:2:Copyright (c) 1991, 1992, 1993, 2000 Free Software Foundation, 
> Inc.
> del.scm:2:Copyright (c) 1991, 1992, 1993, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> ent.scm:2:Copyright (c) 1991, 1992, 1993, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> ent.scm:751:Copyright (c) 1991, 1992, 1993, 2000 Free Software Foundation, 
> Inc..\n")
> prev.scm:2:Copyright (c) 1991, 1992, 1993, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> scan.scm:2:Copyright (c) 1991, 1992, 1993, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> stats.scm:2:Copyright (c) 1991, 1992, 1993, 2000 Free Software Foundation, 
> Inc.
> wbdefs.scm:2:Copyright (c) 1991, 1992, 1993, 2000 Free Software Foundation, 
> Inc.
> wbcheck.c:2:Copyright (c) 1991, 1992, 1993, 2000 Free Software Foundation, 
> Inc.
> test.scm:2:Copyright (c) 1991, 1992, 1993, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> VMSBUILD.COM:1:Copyright (c) 1991, 1992, 1993, 2000 Free Software Foundation, 
> Inc.
> .cvsignore:
> wbtab.scm:2:Copyright 1996, 2000, 2001 Aubrey Jaffer
> wbsys.scm:2:Copyright (c) 1991, 1992, 1993, 2000 Free Software Foundation, 
> Inc.
> make.scm:2:Copyright (c) 1991, 1992, 1993, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> ChangeLog:
> handle.scm:2:Copyright (c) 1991, 1992, 1993, 2000 Free Software Foundation, 
> Inc.
> Makefile:1:Copyright (c) 1991, 1992, 1993, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> README:44:Copyright (c) 1991, 1992, 1993, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> README:91:Copyright (C)  1991, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2000                   
>   Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> ANNOUNCE:
> wb.spec:
> wb.texi:33:Copyright @copyright{} 1992-2000 Free Software Foundation
> wb.texi:61:Copyright (C) 1992-2000 Free Software Foundation
> wb.texi:167:Copyright (C)  1991, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2000 @center Free 
> Software Foundation, Inc.
> blink.c:2:Copyright (c) 1991, 1992, 1993, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 
> */
> blink.h:
> blkio.c:2:Copyright (c) 1991, 1992, 1993, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 
> */
> blkio.h:
> del.c:2:Copyright (c) 1991, 1992, 1993, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. */
> del.h:
> ent.c:2:Copyright (c) 1991, 1992, 1993, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. */
> ent.h:
> handle.c:2:Copyright (c) 1991, 1992, 1993, 2000 Free Software Foundation, 
> Inc. */
> handle.h:
> prev.c:2:Copyright (c) 1991, 1992, 1993, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 
> */
> prev.h:
> scan.c:2:Copyright (c) 1991, 1992, 1993, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 
> */
> scan.h:
> stats.c:2:Copyright (c) 1991, 1992, 1993, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 
> */
> stats.h:
> wb.info:17:Copyright (C) 1992-2000 Free Software Foundation
> wb.info:104:Copyright (C)  1991, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2000                 
>     Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> wbdefs.h:2:Copyright (c) 1991, 1992, 1993, 2000 Free Software Foundation, 
> Inc. */
> 
> Compilation finished at Sat Nov 16 18:41:18

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