Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2019-11-13 16:44:38) > Licensecheck currently expects to be handed only sourcecode. [...] > For use right now, I recommend to combine licensecheck with helper > scripts part of cdbs (but *not* build-depend on or otherwise use cdbs). > For examples of using those helper scripts to pre-parse some binary > files and skip select other ones, while not accidentally silencing later > introduced unknown types of files, see file debian/copyright-check in > the source code of ghostscript (or pandoc or valentina), and the files > /usr/lib/cdbs/license-miner and /usr/lib/cdbs/licensecheck2dep5 in > package cdbs.
Update: See https://wiki.debian.org/CopyrightReviewTools#licensecheck for best practice on using licensecheck with sources involving binary data (no need for CDBS). Thanks to Vignesh Raman in bug#103340 for pointing out the above outdated advice. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ * Sponsorship: https://ko-fi.com/drjones [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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