Debian Bug report logs - #472199
licensecheck: output formats: DEP-5 output is imperfect

Package: licensecheck; Maintainer for licensecheck is Debian Perl Group <[email protected]>; Source for licensecheck is src:licensecheck (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Jan Hauke Rahm <[email protected]>

Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 16:45:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: confirmed

Merged with 595272

Fix blocked by 526701: licensecheck: options: recursive scan should check all files (--check=".*" by default), 545193: licensecheck: options: recursive scan should check all files (--recursive should imply --check=".*"), 828941: licensecheck: source formats: extract strings from binary files with binwalk or hachoir, 828948: licensecheck: source formats: extract strings from binary files with binwalk or hachoir, 837973: licensecheck: source formats: extract metadata from fonts, 960694: licensecheck: file selection: detect and skip binary files by default, 960695: licensecheck: options: profiles other than current "code comments in independent plaintext files", 1040063: licensecheck: source formats: extract metadata from fonts

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Dear devscripts developers,

I'm not really a perl hacker but I did a try on adding this feature to
licensecheck myself. It is *NOT* ready and does *NOT* do what it should.
It just adds a possible way to output license information as requested
by the copyright proposal.

Well, I tried to comment on every sensefull line I've added so that you
can clearly understand what I did. Furthermore I tried to not touch
anything you wrote so I don't think that I broke anything.
Although I added an option "createfile" my patch does not create a new
copyright file. It just prints whatever could be put into such a file. I
guess, doing the file handling is not the most difficult part of the
job. :)

I'd like to hear your comments on my patch. If you feel it is not worth
working on it just tell me. I can stop everytime.

Cheers,
Hauke

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