Hello Balasankar, Am 04.09.2015 um 19:38 schrieb Balasankar C: > Hi, > > Is there any script which takes abbreviation of a license (like > GPL-3+) as input and generates the license text that can be used in > debian/copyright (80 character wrapped, one space before each line, > paragraph separated with periods - the whole deal. > > For example, if the script is named 'genlicense', the command > $ genlicense gpl-3.0+ > > should give the following output > > License: GPL-3.0+ > This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it > under > the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free > Software > Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later > version. > . > This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT > ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or > FITNESS > FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more > details. > . > You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along > with > this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. > . > On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License > version > 3 can be found in "/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3". > > > > Is there any script which does this already? If not, can I write one > that supports all DFSG-happy licenses and add it to devscripts?
I was successful using the cme command [1] from the package libconfig-model-dpkg-perl [2] while refreshing the copyright information for Icedove to create a base for further working. But there are surly other tools. [1] https://ddumont.wordpress.com/2015/04/05/improving-creation-of-debian-copyright-file/ [2] https://packages.qa.debian.org/libc/libconfig-model-dpkg-perl.html -- Regards Carsten Schoenert
