[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: arscanner -- vetting project copyright info

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi Alfred,

Thanks for the link.

I forward this to the list.

Hiren and Leo, do you think there's code to reuse here for scanning
source licenses?

-- 
Sylvain

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:05:25AM +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> found this while browsing the EmacsWiki, might be of interest to the
> savannah hackers.
> 
> ArScanner
> 
> The purpose of this tool for Emacs is to help free software developers
> to manage author rights and licenses in their source files’ headers.
> 
> First the command “arscanner” extracts the copyright holders from each
> source files’ header, if any and tries also to identify the
> license. Result is put in a special buffer named “*arscanner*”
> 
> Then the Arscanner’s buffer helps browse source files. You can
> directly edit a header file to correct something, or add a header to
> one or more files.
> 
> The most popular licenses should be recognized :
> 
>     * GNU General Public License (GPL) 
>     * GNU Library or "Lesser" General Public License (LGP
>     * Apache License, 2.0
>     * New BSD license 
>     * MIT license 
>     * Mozilla Public License 1.1 (MPL) 
>     * Common Development and Distribution License 
>     * Common Public License 1.0 
>     * Eclipse Public License
>     * CeCILL V2
>     * CeCILL-B
>     * CeCILL-C
> 
> Arscanner is a major-mode for emacs. You can find it at
> http://admisource.gouv.fr/projects/arscanner