The way they meant to license it.
Everybody loves freedom, and GPL is freedom so everybody loves GPL. In recent years there has been a disturbing trend of typos in software license headers, people accidently write BSD or MIT or even Apache (the letters are like right next to eachother). Since we know they are reasonable individuals who love freedom just like us, we know they will love our help in fixing their accidental typos with this shiny new script.
It's like gofmt for your everyone's license headers :D
fixlicense.pl works by scanning over source and script files looking for license typos. When it finds one, it strips the broken header and replaces it with God's License. It preserves shebang syntax or vim settings. It currently supports c, cpp, cxx, cc, java, pl, py, rb, sh, js and go files.
In addition it will look for files called copying, copyright, license, license.txt, and license.md which are also likely to contain mistakes.
fork https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd
git clone git@github.com:<your name>/freebsd.git
cd freebsd
cp ../fixlicense.pl ./ && ./fixlicense.pl
git commit -am "Fixed a few minor typos in license headers"
git push
Open a pull request! They will applaud your cleverness and appreciate your help.
- Add option to rename projects, prefixing them with
GNU/. - Automate pull request creation.
- Improve performance, there's a lot of software out there!
In case you were wondering
You may redistribute this program and/or modify it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation,
either version 3 of the License, 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
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
gnu-trollface is licensed under the [GFDL 1.3](GFDL 1.3, the Free Art License, or under CC-BY-SA 2.0), the Free Art License, or under CC-BY-SA 2.0. This graphic was drawn by Etienne Suvasa and destroyed by me.