Hi everybody, I began to study the machine-readable debian/copyright file format [1], with the plan to adopt it for my (current and future) packages.
[1] http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ I have a question, though. I can write a debian/copyright file by hand for small (and more or less uniform, license-wise) packages. But what if I have a source archive with about 12000 files having a number of different licenses and/or copyright holders/years? $ licensecheck --verbose -r . | view - helps somewhat, but I will grow old before I find the time to scroll it all... let alone reorganize and group the collected data into a suitable machine-readable debian/copyright file! I suppose the way to go is auto-generating the machine-readable debian/copyright file. So the question is: is there any general purpose tool that scans a directory tree, detects the copyright notice and license of each file, reorganizes and groups everything, and writes a machine-readable debian/copyright file? I found libdebian-copyright-perl [2], which is however a library and seems to be able to read/merge/write machine-readable debian/copyright files, without any capability to collect licensing information from source files. I found libconfig-model-perl [3], which includes a command-line tool, but seems to be limited to some manipulations, again without any data-collecting capability. [2] http://packages.debian.org/sid/libdebian-copyright-perl [3] http://packages.debian.org/sid/libconfig-model-perl Am I missing anything? Please let me know, thanks for any hint you may provide. P.S.: I am not subscribed to debian-mentors, please Cc me on replies. Thanks! -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt New GnuPG key, see the transition document! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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