Wunschkonzert, Ponyhof und Abenteuerspielplatz

Here's a little a little tool I wrote that automatically generates copyright headers for source files in a git repository based on the git history.

Run it like this:

~/projects/pulseaudio$ copyright.py src/pulsecore/sink.c src/pulsecore/core-util.c

And it will give you this:

File: src/pulsecore/sink.c
	Copyright 2004, 2006-2009 Lennart Poettering
	Copyright 2006-2007 Pierre Ossman
	Copyright 2008-2009 Marc-Andre Lureau
File: src/pulsecore/core-util.c
	Copyright 2004, 2006-2009 Lennart Poettering
	Copyright 2006-2007 Pierre Ossman
	Copyright 2008 Stelian Ionescu
	Copyright 2009 Jared D. McNeill
	Copyright 2009 Marc-Andre Lureau

This little script could use love from a friendly soul to make it crawl entire source trees and patch in appropriate copyright headers. Anyone up for it?

posted at: 00:16 | path: /projects | permanent link to this entry | 2 comments

Posted by Havoc at Sat Feb 21 04:33:05 2009
A problem is that frequently (even usually?) the copyright belongs to an employer, not the person doing the work. That's why headers usually distinguish between copyright and "developed by"

Posted by Tom at Sun Feb 22 22:06:54 2009
I like it. './copyright.py src/*.c' is enough, no need for any more smartness in the script.

Note that it also displays "Not committed yet", you might want to catch that.

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Sat, 21 Feb 2009

Generating Copyright Headers from git History