$arr_19 ), array( 3, false, $arr_20, $arr_24 ), array( 2, false, "\" />", $arr_25 ) ) ); ?> $arr_27 ), array( 3, false, $arr_28, $arr_30 ), array( 2, false, "\" />\n\n", $arr_31 ) ) ); ?> array( 2, false, false, $arr_9 ), array( 4, $arr_10, "if", $arr_245, $arr_248 ), array( 2, false, "\n", $arr_249 ) ) ); ?> rr_466 ), array( 4, $arr_467, "if", $arr_482, $arr_484 ), array( 2, false, "\n", $arr_485 ) ) ); ?> Perl Script Extracts Software Licenses » Linux Magazine
 

Perl Script Extracts Software Licenses

Dec 31, 2009

A tiny script from U.S. network specialist Scott Iekel-Johnson extracts software licenses from source code. The oss-license-extract tool is now available in version 1.2.

The program in its current version searches through files with "license" and "copying" in their names, C source code and header files, and shell, Python, perl, Tcl and PHP scripts. It then produces a report with all copyright notices, authors and employed licenses, while eliminating duplicates. Iekel-Johnson wrote his scripts for his employer Arbor Networks to give him an overview of licenses before applying them or using them in distros.

The oss-license-extract 1.2 perl script is itself under BSD license as a tarball ready for download.

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