NAME

       licensecheck - simple license checker for source files

VERSION

       Version v3.0.31

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 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/>.

perl v5.26.1                                       2017-09-17                                   LICENSECHECK(1p)