1LICENSECHECK(1)       User Contributed Perl Documentation      LICENSECHECK(1)
2
3
4

NAME

6       licensecheck - simple license checker for source files
7

VERSION

9       Version v3.0.45
10

SYNOPSIS

12       licensecheck --help|--version
13
14       licensecheck [options...] path [path...]
15

DESCRIPTION

17       licensecheck attempts to determine the license that applies to each
18       file passed to it, by searching the start of the file for text
19       belonging to various licenses.
20
21       If any of the arguments passed are directories, licensecheck will add
22       the files contained within to the list of files to process.
23

DEBUGGING

25       If either of environment variables INFO, DEBUG or TRACE is set to true,
26       varying details about discoveries are emitted to STDERR.
27

SEE ALSO

29       Other similar tools exist.
30
31       Here is a list of known tools also command-line based and general-
32       purpose:
33
34       copyright-update <https://github.com/jaalto/project--copyright-update>
35                       Written in Perl.
36
37       debmake <http://anonscm.debian.org/git/collab-maint/debmake.git>
38                       Written in Python.
39
40                       Specific to Debian packages.
41
42       decopy <https://anonscm.debian.org/git/collab-maint/decopy.git>
43                       Written in Python.
44
45                       )item Licensee <http://ben.balter.com/licensee/>
46
47                       Written in Ruby.
48
49       LicenseFinder <https://github.com/pivotal/LicenseFinder>
50                       Written in Ruby.
51
52       ninka <http://ninka.turingmachine.org/>
53                       Written in C++.
54
55                       Used in FOSSology <http://fossology.org/> (along with
56                       Monk and Nomos apparently unavailable as standalone
57                       command-line tools).
58
59       ripper <https://github.com/odeke-em/ripper>
60                       Written in Go.
61
62       scancode-toolkit <https://github.com/nexB/scancode-toolkit>
63                       Written in Python.
64

AUTHOR

66       Jonas Smedegaard "<dr@jones.dk>"
67

69       This program is based on the script "licensecheck" from the KDE SDK,
70       originally introduced by Stefan Westerfeld "<stefan@space.twc.de>".
71
72         Copyright © 2007, 2008 Adam D. Barratt
73
74         Copyright © 2012 Francesco Poli
75
76         Copyright © 2016 Jonas Smedegaard
77
78       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
79       under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
80       Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any
81       later version.
82
83       This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
84       WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
85       MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
86       General Public License for more details.
87
88       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
89       with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
90
91
92
93perl v5.30.1                      2020-02-24                   LICENSECHECK(1)
Impressum