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 © 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 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/>.