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NAME

6       license-fedora2spdx - Converts old Fedora license string to SPDX
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SYNOPSIS

10       license-fedora2spdx [-h] [--file FILE] [--verbose] license
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12       positional arguments: license license string. E.g., 'GPL or MIT'.
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OPTIONS

15       -h, --help
16           Show help message and exit.
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18       --file FILE
19           Read the grammar from this file. Default is
20           /usr/share/license-validate/grammar-shortnames.lark. And if this
21           default does not exists then script reads
22           ./full-grammar-shortnames.lark.
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24       --verbose, -v
25           Print more human friendly messages. Otherwise just exits with error
26           code zero if license is valid otherwise with error code 1 if
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DESCRIPTION

30       Takes license string in old short format (as stated on Licensing wiki)
31       and converts it to formula of SPDX identifiers.
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33       It warns you when the short name can be converted to multiple SPDX
34       identifiers. You must then research which license is correct.
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36       This script does not check source files and does not check whether the
37       license is actually correct. For this purpose you may use licensecheck.
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AUTHORS

40       Miroslav Suchý <msuchy@redhat.com>
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