NAME

licensecheck - simple license checker for source files

VERSION

Version v3.0.38

SYNOPSIS

licensecheck --help|--version

licensecheck [options...] path [path...]

DESCRIPTION

licensecheck attempts to determine the license that applies to each file passed to it, by searching the start of the file for text belonging to various licenses.

If any of the arguments passed are directories, licensecheck will add the files contained within to the list of files to process.

DEBUGGING

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

SEE ALSO

Other similar tools exist.

Here is a list of known tools also command-line based and general-purpose:

copyright-update

Written in Perl.

debmake

Written in Python.

Specific to Debian packages.

decopy

Written in Python.

)item Licensee

Written in Ruby.

LicenseFinder

Written in Ruby.

ninka

Written in C++.

Used in FOSSology (along with Monk and Nomos apparently unavailable as standalone command-line tools).

ripper

Written in Go.

scancode-toolkit

Written in Python.

AUTHOR

Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This program is based on the script "licensecheck" from the KDE SDK, originally introduced by Stefan Westerfeld <stefan@space.twc.de>.

Copyright © 2007, 2008 Adam D. Barratt

Copyright © 2012 Francesco Poli

Copyright © 2016 Jonas Smedegaard

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.