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NAME

licensecheck - simple license checker for source files

VERSION

Version v3.0.30

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.

AUTHOR

Jonas Smedegaard "<dr@jones.dk>"

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This program is based on the script ``licensecheck'' from the originally introduced by Stefan Westerfeld "<stefan@space.twc.de>".

  Copyright © 2007, 2008 Adam D. Barratt

  Copyright © 2012 Francesco Poli

  Copyright © 2016 Jonas Smedegaard

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the

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 even the implied warranty of or See the General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the

General Public License along with this program. If not, see <www.gnu.org/licenses>.