#595272 licensecheck: DEP-5 output is imperfect

Package:
licensecheck
Source:
licensecheck
Submitter:
Date:
2025-04-08 11:39:02 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
Tags:
Blocked By:
Bug Title
828948

  3

 licensecheck: file parsing: extract strings from binary files with binwalk or hachoir

wishlist stable testing unstable over 1 year ago

960694

  4

 licensecheck: detect and skip binary files by default

wishlist stable testing unstable over 1 year ago

828941

  5

 licensecheck: file parsing: extract strings from binary files with binwalk or hachoir

wishlist stable testing unstable over 1 year ago

960695

  4

 licensecheck: add usage option, to covermore than current "only look for source code"

wishlist stable testing unstable over 1 year ago

837973

  4

 licensecheck: file parsing: extract metadata from fonts

normal stable testing unstable over 1 year ago

526701

  5

 licensecheck: options: recursive scan should check all files (--check=".*" by default)

normal stable testing unstable over 3 years ago

545193

  5

 licensecheck: options: recursive scan should check all files (--recursive should imply --check=".*")

normal stable testing unstable over 3 years ago

#595272#5
Date:
2010-09-02 16:21:35 UTC
From:
To:
Hi,

currently, licensecheck (if invoked via "-r --copyright") reports the
copyright
and license information for a specific source tree in a per-file format,
but
does not allow for the grouping of files with the same combination of
copyright
holder and license as current DEP5 suggests.

Current CDBS (thus CC:ing the CDBS maintainer) provids a nice little
helper
script in /usr/lib/cdbs/licensecheck2dep5 that allows to convert
licensecheck's
output into DEP5 format [1]. Since both programs are written in perl, I
believe
it is rather straightforward to implement this feature in licensecheck
itself.
Ideally, licensecheck would provide a new command line option, e.g.
"--dep5",
that implies "-r --copyright" and reports exact the same output as if
piped
through CDBS's licensecheck2dep5 program.

Thanks,
Fabian

[1] For an actual use case of this script in combination with
licensecheck,
please see the debian/stamp-copyright-check: rule in
/usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/utils.mk.
--- /etc/devscripts.conf ---

--- ~/.devscripts ---
Not present
#595272#10
Date:
2010-09-02 16:52:53 UTC
From:
To:
user devscripts@packages.debian.org
usertag 595272 licensecheck
forcemerge 472199 595272
thanks

Thanks for the pointer to CDBS' script.  Comparing that with the
existing patch to licensecheck should hopefully give a good base to work
from.

I've personally been avoiding this since DEP-5 is still a draft and is
subject to change, although it has been stagnant for a while.  I'll have
to see how things progress since Lars Wirzenius has stepped up to
continue pushing the DEP to completion.

I'll revisit this post-Squeeze as I'm only considering Squeeze targetted
changes to devscripts for now.
#595272#39
Date:
2023-05-12 14:36:46 UTC
From:
To:
Good morning,

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