Bug#829667: License headers

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Sandro Mani (2016-07-05 15:14:35)
> 
> 
> On 05.07.2016 15:09, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > Quoting Sandro Mani (2016-07-05 14:15:26)
> >> On 05.07.2016 12:56, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> >>> Thanks for elaborating on how Fedora uses licensecheck for quality 
> >>> assurance.  I appreciate your contacting upstreams to ensure that 
> >>> licensing statements are unambiguous and embedded in each file 
> >>> where copyright is claimed.  But instead of suggesting upstreams 
> >>> to conform to the more strict principle of putting licensing 
> >>> statements at the top of each file, I recommend that instead 
> >>> Fedora considers adjusting its quality assureance process to scan 
> >>> whole files instead of only the header.
> >> Well, I suppose it is licensecheck itself which only scans the 
> >> headers?
[...]
> > If you do "licensecheck --help" you will see that there are options 
> > to either check the whole file (--lines 0) or bottom in addition to 
> > top (--tail N).
> >
> > I recommend to scan the whole file.
> >
> Hmm,
> 
> $ licensecheck -r --lines 0 App-Licensecheck-v3.0.1
> App-Licensecheck-v3.0.1/bin/licensecheck: UNKNOWN
> App-Licensecheck-v3.0.1/lib/App/Licensecheck.pm: UNKNOWN
> [...]

Quite interesting - assuming you did in fact check the --help option.

What does "licensecheck --version | head -n 1" say?

 - Jonas

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