licensecheck

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NAME
       licensecheck - simple license checker for source files

VERSION
       Version v3.0.45

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 INFO, DEBUG or TRACE is set to true,
       varying 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 <https://github.com/jaalto/project--copyright-update>
                       Written in Perl.

       debmake <http://anonscm.debian.org/git/collab-maint/debmake.git>
                       Written in Python.

                       Specific to Debian packages.

       decopy <https://anonscm.debian.org/git/collab-maint/decopy.git>
                       Written in Python.

                       )item Licensee <http://ben.balter.com/licensee/>

                       Written in Ruby.

       LicenseFinder <https://github.com/pivotal/LicenseFinder>
                       Written in Ruby.

       ninka <http://ninka.turingmachine.org/>
                       Written in C++.

                       Used in FOSSology <http://fossology.org/> (along with
                       Monk and Nomos apparently unavailable as standalone
                       command-line tools).

       ripper <https://github.com/odeke-em/ripper>
                       Written in Go.

       scancode-toolkit <https://github.com/nexB/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 (C) 2007, 2008 Adam D. Barratt

         Copyright (C) 2012 Francesco Poli

         Copyright (C) 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/>.

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