Sun, 10 Sep 2006
Small helper for license checks
I'm sure you know the situation, that you have a package, which license file
says more or less This is GPL
and you later find out (probaly by a
rejected upload from Ganneff), that there are some files from a different
author or under a different license.
I found the following quite usefull for a quick and dirty check: egrep -Hi 'copyright|LGPL' $(grep -wriL 'GPL' *).
The inner grep will create a list of al files not containing the word "GPL"; the outer egrep will then create a list of all those files containing either the word "copyright" or the word "LPGL".
It's of course not perfect (and far from a nothing found? okay, let's
upload it
), but at least you'll get a list of files where it's quite
sure you need to mentionen them in your debian/control ;)
Anyone has any better checks for such things?
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