after reviewing a source package with nearly 1000 files, i thought it would be
extremely useful to be able to exclude/include files that match certain license
patterns.

something like:

  licensecheck --include-license UNKNOWN

and then it would only show files that have an UNKNOWN license.

alternately, something like:

  licensecheck --exclude-license *GPL*

similarly, something to check for missing copyrights:

  licensecheck --missing-copyright

this would make it easier to target the most problematic files, or tracking
down a particular type of issue with licensing and copyright review.

thanks!

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Hmm, other people may ask for other filtering mechanism.

How about using licensecheck -m and grep ?

you can use 'licensecheck -m -r . |grep UNKNOWN

licensecheck -m -r . |grep GPL

licensecheck -m -r . |grep -i 'no copyright'

Hope this helps

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