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License Eye Header

A full-featured license tool to check and fix license headers and dependencies' licenses

Installation

Copy and paste the following snippet into your .yml file.

 
              
- name: License Eye Header

              
  uses: apache/skywalking-eyes@v0.6.0
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A full-featured license tool to check and fix license headers and resolve dependencies' licenses.

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Usage

You can use License-Eye in GitHub Actions or in your local machine.

GitHub Actions

First of all, add a .licenserc.yaml in the root of your project, for Apache Software Foundation projects, the following configuration should be enough.

Note: The full configurations can be found in the configuration section.

header:
  license:
    spdx-id: Apache-2.0
    copyright-owner: Apache Software Foundation

  paths-ignore:
    - 'dist'
    - 'licenses'
    - '**/*.md'
    - 'LICENSE'
    - 'NOTICE'

  comment: on-failure

# If you don't want to check dependencies' license compatibility, remove the following part
dependency:
  files:
    - pom.xml           # If this is a maven project.
    - Cargo.toml        # If this is a rust project.
    - package.json      # If this is a npm project.
    - go.mod            # If this is a Go project.

Check License Headers

To check license headers in GitHub Actions, add a step in your GitHub workflow.

- name: Check License Header
  uses: apache/skywalking-eyes/header@main      # always prefer to use a revision instead of `main`.
  # with:
      # log: debug # optional: set the log level. The default value is `info`.
      # config: .licenserc.yaml # optional: set the config file. The default value is `.licenserc.yaml`.
      # token: # optional: the token that license eye uses when it needs to comment on the pull request. Set to empty ("") to disable commenting on pull request. The default value is ${{ github.token }}
      # mode: # optional: Which mode License-Eye should be run in. Choices are `check` or `fix`. The default value is `check`.

Fix License Headers

By default the action runs License-Eye in check mode, which will raise an error if any of the processed files are missing license headers. If mode is set to fix, the action will instead apply the license header to any processed file that is missing a license header. The fixed files can then be pushed back to the pull request using another GitHub action. For example:

- name: Fix License Header
  uses: apache/skywalking-eyes/header@main
  with:
    mode: fix
- name: Apply Changes
  uses: EndBug/add-and-commit@v4
  env:
      GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
  with:
    author_name: License Bot
    author_email: license_bot@github.com
    message: 'Automatic application of license header'

Warning: The exit code of fix mode is always 0 and can not be used to block CI status. Consider running the action in check mode if you would like CI to fail when a file is missing a license header.

Note: In 0.3.0 and earlier versions, GitHub Actions apache/skywalking-eyes only works for header check/fix, since 0.4.0, we have a dedicate GitHub Actions apache/skywalking-eyes/header for header check/fix and a GitHub Actions apache/skywalking-eyes/dependency for dependency resolve/check. Now apache/skywalking-eyes is equivalent to apache/skywalking-eyes/header in order not to break existing usages of apache/skywalking-eyes.

Check Dependencies' License

To check dependencies license in GitHub Actions, add a step in your GitHub workflow.

- name: Check Dependencies' License
  uses: apache/skywalking-eyes/dependency@main      # always prefer to use a revision instead of `main`.
  # with:
      # log: debug # optional: set the log level. The default value is `info`.
      # config: .licenserc.yaml # optional: set the config file. The default value is `.licenserc.yaml`.
      # mode: # optional: Which mode License-Eye should be run in. Choices are `check` or `resolve`. The default value is `check`.
      # flags: # optional: Extra flags appended to the command, for example, `--summary=path/to/template.tmpl`

Docker Image

docker run -it --rm -v $(pwd):/github/workspace apache/skywalking-eyes header check
docker run -it --rm -v $(pwd):/github/workspace apache/skywalking-eyes header fix

Docker Image from the latest codes

For users and developers who want to help to test the latest codes on main branch, we publish a Docker image to the GitHub Container Registry for every commit in main branch, tagged with the commit sha. If it's the latest commit in main branch, it's also tagged with latest.

Note: these Docker images are not official Apache releases. For official releases, please refer to the download page for executable binary and the Docker hub for Docker images.

docker run -it --rm -v $(pwd):/github/workspace ghcr.io/apache/skywalking-eyes/license-eye header check
docker run -it --rm -v $(pwd):/github/workspace ghcr.io/apache/skywalking-eyes/license-eye header fix

Compile from Source

git clone https://github.com/apache/skywalking-eyes
cd skywalking-eyes
make build

If you have the Go SDK installed, you can also use the go install command to install the latest code.

go install github.com/apache/skywalking-eyes/cmd/license-eye@latest

Check License Header

license-eye -c test/testdata/.licenserc_for_test_check.yaml header check
Header Check Result 
INFO Loading configuration from file: test/testdata/.licenserc_for_test_check.yaml
INFO Totally checked 30 files, valid: 12, invalid: 12, ignored: 6, fixed: 0
ERROR the following files don't have a valid license header:
test/testdata/include_test/without_license/testcase.go
test/testdata/include_test/without_license/testcase.graphql
test/testdata/include_test/without_license/testcase.ini
test/testdata/include_test/without_license/testcase.java
test/testdata/include_test/without_license/testcase.md
test/testdata/include_test/without_license/testcase.php
test/testdata/include_test/without_license/testcase.py
test/testdata/include_test/without_license/testcase.sh
test/testdata/include_test/without_license/testcase.yaml
test/testdata/include_test/without_license/testcase.yml
test/testdata/test-spdx-asf.yaml
test/testdata/test-spdx.yaml
exit status 1

Fix License Header

bin/darwin/license-eye -c test/testdata/.licenserc_for_test_fix.yaml header fix
Header Fix Result 
INFO Loading configuration from file: test/testdata/.licenserc_for_test_fix.yaml
INFO Totally checked 20 files, valid: 10, invalid: 10, ignored: 0, fixed: 10

Resolve Dependencies' licenses

This command assists human audits of the dependencies licenses. It's exit code is always 0.

It supports two flags:

Flag name Short name Description
--output -o Save the dependencies' LICENSE files to a specified directory so that you can put them in distribution package if needed.
--summary -s Based on the template, aggregate all dependency information and generate a LICENSE file.
--license -l The output path to the LICENSE file to be generated. The default summary format will be used if summary template file is not specified 
license-eye -c test/testdata/.licenserc_for_test_check.yaml dep resolve -o ./dependencies/licenses -s LICENSE.tpl
Dependency Resolve Result 
INFO Loading configuration from file: .licenserc.yaml
WARNING Failed to resolve the license of <github.com/acomagu/bufpipe@v1.0.3>: cannot find license file
Dependency                           |              License |                                  Version
------------------------------------ | -------------------- | ----------------------------------------
github.com/Masterminds/goutils       |           Apache-2.0 |                                   v1.1.1
github.com/Masterminds/semver/v3     |                  MIT |                                   v3.1.1
github.com/Masterminds/sprig/v3      |                  MIT |                                   v3.2.2
github.com/Microsoft/go-winio        |                  MIT |                                   v0.5.2
github.com/ProtonMail/go-crypto      |         BSD-3-Clause |       v0.0.0-20220824120805-4b6e5c587895
github.com/bmatcuk/doublestar/v2     |                  MIT |                                   v2.0.4
github.com/cloudflare/circl          |         BSD-3-Clause |                                   v1.2.0
github.com/davecgh/go-spew           |                  ISC |                                   v1.1.1
github.com/emirpasic/gods            | BSD-2-Clause and ISC |                                  v1.18.1
github.com/go-git/gcfg               |         BSD-3-Clause |                                   v1.5.0
github.com/go-git/go-billy/v5        |           Apache-2.0 |                                   v5.3.1
github.com/go-git/go-git/v5          |           Apache-2.0 |                                   v5.4.2
github.com/golang/protobuf           |         BSD-3-Clause |                                   v1.5.2
github.com/google/go-github/v33      |         BSD-3-Clause |                                  v33.0.0
github.com/google/go-querystring     |         BSD-3-Clause |                                   v1.1.0
github.com/google/licensecheck       |         BSD-3-Clause |                                   v0.3.1
github.com/google/uuid               |         BSD-3-Clause |                                   v1.1.1
github.com/huandu/xstrings           |                  MIT |                                   v1.3.1
github.com/imdario/mergo             |         BSD-3-Clause |                                  v0.3.13
github.com/inconshreveable/mousetrap |           Apache-2.0 |                                   v1.0.0
github.com/jbenet/go-context         |                  MIT |       v0.0.0-20150711004518-d14ea06fba99
github.com/kevinburke/ssh_config     |                  MIT |                                   v1.2.0
github.com/mitchellh/copystructure   |                  MIT |                                   v1.0.0
github.com/mitchellh/go-homedir      |                  MIT |                                   v1.1.0
github.com/mitchellh/reflectwalk     |                  MIT |                                   v1.0.0
github.com/pmezard/go-difflib        |         BSD-3-Clause |                                   v1.0.0
github.com/sergi/go-diff             |                  MIT |                                   v1.2.0
github.com/shopspring/decimal        |                  MIT |                                   v1.2.0
github.com/sirupsen/logrus           |                  MIT |                                   v1.8.1
github.com/spf13/cast                |                  MIT |                                   v1.3.1
github.com/spf13/cobra               |           Apache-2.0 |                                   v1.4.0
github.com/spf13/pflag               |         BSD-3-Clause |                                   v1.0.5
github.com/stretchr/testify          |                  MIT |                                   v1.7.0
github.com/xanzy/ssh-agent           |           Apache-2.0 |                                   v0.3.2
golang.org/x/crypto                  |         BSD-3-Clause |       v0.0.0-20220829220503-c86fa9a7ed90
golang.org/x/mod                     |         BSD-3-Clause | v0.6.0-dev.0.20220106191415-9b9b3d81d5e3
golang.org/x/net                     |         BSD-3-Clause |       v0.0.0-20220826154423-83b083e8dc8b
golang.org/x/oauth2                  |         BSD-3-Clause |       v0.0.0-20220411215720-9780585627b5
golang.org/x/sys                     |         BSD-3-Clause |       v0.0.0-20220829200755-d48e67d00261
golang.org/x/text                    |         BSD-3-Clause |                                   v0.3.7
golang.org/x/tools                   |         BSD-3-Clause |                                  v0.1.10
golang.org/x/xerrors                 |         BSD-3-Clause |       v0.0.0-20220517211312-f3a8303e98df
google.golang.org/appengine          |           Apache-2.0 |                                   v1.6.7
google.golang.org/protobuf           |         BSD-3-Clause |                                  v1.28.0
gopkg.in/warnings.v0                 |         BSD-2-Clause |                                   v0.1.2
gopkg.in/yaml.v3                     |   MIT and Apache-2.0 |                                   v3.0.0
github.com/acomagu/bufpipe           |              Unknown |                                   v1.0.3

ERROR failed to identify the licenses of following packages (1):
github.com/acomagu/bufpipe
exit status 1
Summary Template

The summary is a template to generate the summary of dependencies' licenses based on the Golang Template. It includes these variables:

Name Type Example Description
LicenseContent string {{.LicenseContent}} The project license content, it's the license of header.license.spdx-id (if set), otherwise it's the header.license.content.
Groups list structure {{ range .Groups }} The dependency groups, all licenses are grouped by the same license SPDX ID.
Groups.LicenseID string {{.LicenseID}} The SPDX ID of dependency.
Groups.Deps list structure {{ range .Deps }} All dependencies with the same SPDX ID.
Groups.Deps.Name string {{.Name}} The name of the dependency.
Groups.Deps.Version string {{.Version}} The version of the dependency.
Groups.Deps.LicenseID string {{.LicenseID}} The SPDX ID of the dependency license.
Summary Template Generate

Summary template content:

{{.LicenseContent }}
{{ range .Groups }}
========================================================================
{{.LicenseID}} licenses
========================================================================
{{range .Deps}}
    {{.Name}} {{.Version}} {{.LicenseID}}
{{- end }}
{{ end }}

Generate LICENSE file content:

                                 Apache License
                           Version 2.0, January 2004
                        http://www.apache.org/licenses/

   TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR USE, REPRODUCTION, AND DISTRIBUTION

   1. Definitions.

      "License" shall mean the terms and conditions for use, reproduction,
      and distribution as defined by Sections 1 through 9 of this document.

      "Licensor" shall mean the copyright owner or entity authorized by
      the copyright owner that is granting the License.

      "Legal Entity" shall mean the union of the acting entity and all
      other entities that control, are controlled by, or are under common
      control with that entity. For the purposes of this definition,
      "control" means (i) the power, direct or indirect, to cause the
      direction or management of such entity, whether by contract or
      otherwise, or (ii) ownership of fifty percent (50%) or more of the
      outstanding shares, or (iii) beneficial ownership of such entity.

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      including but not limited to software source code, documentation
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========================================================================
MIT licenses
========================================================================

    github.com/BurntSushi/toml v0.3.1 MIT
    github.com/alecthomas/units v0.0.0-20151022065526-2efee857e7cf MIT
    github.com/armon/circbuf v0.0.0-20150827004946-bbbad097214e MIT
    github.com/armon/go-metrics v0.0.0-20180917152333-f0300d1749da MIT
    github.com/armon/go-radix v0.0.0-20180808171621-7fddfc383310 MIT
    github.com/beorn7/perks v1.0.0 MIT
    github.com/bgentry/speakeasy v0.1.0 MIT
    github.com/bketelsen/crypt v0.0.3-0.20200106085610-5cbc8cc4026c MIT
    github.com/bmatcuk/doublestar/v2 v2.0.4 MIT

========================================================================
ISC licenses
========================================================================

    github.com/davecgh/go-spew v1.1.1 ISC

========================================================================
BSD-2-Clause licenses
========================================================================

    github.com/gopherjs/gopherjs v0.0.0-20181017120253-0766667cb4d1 BSD-2-Clause
    github.com/gorilla/websocket v1.4.2 BSD-2-Clause
    github.com/pkg/errors v0.8.1 BSD-2-Clause
    github.com/russross/blackfriday/v2 v2.0.1 BSD-2-Clause

========================================================================
MPL-2.0-no-copyleft-exception licenses
========================================================================

    github.com/hashicorp/consul/api v1.1.0 MPL-2.0-no-copyleft-exception
    github.com/hashicorp/consul/sdk v0.1.1 MPL-2.0-no-copyleft-exception
    github.com/hashicorp/go-cleanhttp v0.5.1 MPL-2.0-no-copyleft-exception
    github.com/hashicorp/go-immutable-radix v1.0.0 MPL-2.0-no-copyleft-exception
    github.com/hashicorp/go-multierror v1.0.0 MPL-2.0-no-copyleft-exception
    github.com/hashicorp/go-rootcerts v1.0.0 MPL-2.0-no-copyleft-exception
    github.com/hashicorp/go-sockaddr v1.0.0 MPL-2.0-no-copyleft-exception
    github.com/hashicorp/go-uuid v1.0.1 MPL-2.0-no-copyleft-exception
    github.com/hashicorp/golang-lru v0.5.1 MPL-2.0-no-copyleft-exception
    github.com/hashicorp/logutils v1.0.0 MPL-2.0-no-copyleft-exception
    github.com/hashicorp/memberlist v0.1.3 MPL-2.0-no-copyleft-exception

========================================================================
MPL-2.0 licenses
========================================================================

    github.com/hashicorp/errwrap v1.0.0 MPL-2.0
    github.com/hashicorp/hcl v1.0.0 MPL-2.0
    github.com/hashicorp/serf v0.8.2 MPL-2.0
    github.com/mitchellh/cli v1.0.0 MPL-2.0
    github.com/mitchellh/gox v0.4.0 MPL-2.0

========================================================================
MIT and Apache licenses
========================================================================

    gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.0-20200615113413-eeeca48fe776 MIT and Apache

========================================================================
Apache-2.0 licenses
========================================================================

    cloud.google.com/go v0.46.3 Apache-2.0
    cloud.google.com/go/bigquery v1.0.1 Apache-2.0
    cloud.google.com/go/datastore v1.0.0 Apache-2.0
    cloud.google.com/go/firestore v1.1.0 Apache-2.0
    cloud.google.com/go/pubsub v1.0.1 Apache-2.0
    cloud.google.com/go/storage v1.0.0 Apache-2.0

========================================================================
BSD-3-Clause licenses
========================================================================

    dmitri.shuralyov.com/gpu/mtl v0.0.0-20190408044501-666a987793e9 BSD-3-Clause
    github.com/BurntSushi/xgb v0.0.0-20160522181843-27f122750802 BSD-3-Clause
    github.com/alecthomas/template v0.0.0-20160405071501-a0175ee3bccc BSD-3-Clause
    github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify v1.4.7 BSD-3-Clause

Check Dependencies' licenses

This command can be used to perform automatic license compatibility check, when there is incompatible licenses found, the command will exit with status code 1 and fail the command.

license-eye -c test/testdata/.licenserc_for_test_check.yaml dep check
Dependency Check Result 
INFO GITHUB_TOKEN is not set, license-eye won't comment on the pull request
INFO Loading configuration from file: .licenserc.yaml
WARNING Failed to resolve the license of <github.com/gogo/protobuf>: cannot identify license content
WARNING Failed to resolve the license of <github.com/kr/logfmt>: cannot find license file
WARNING Failed to resolve the license of <github.com/magiconair/properties>: cannot identify license content
WARNING Failed to resolve the license of <github.com/miekg/dns>: cannot identify license content
WARNING Failed to resolve the license of <github.com/pascaldekloe/goe>: cannot identify license content
WARNING Failed to resolve the license of <github.com/russross/blackfriday/v2>: cannot identify license content
WARNING Failed to resolve the license of <gopkg.in/check.v1>: cannot identify license content
ERROR the following licenses are incompatible with the main license: Apache-2.0
License: Unknown Dependency: github.com/gogo/protobuf
License: Unknown Dependency: github.com/kr/logfmt
License: Unknown Dependency: github.com/magiconair/properties
License: Unknown Dependency: github.com/miekg/dns
License: Unknown Dependency: github.com/pascaldekloe/goe
License: Unknown Dependency: github.com/russross/blackfriday/v2
License: Unknown Dependency: gopkg.in/check.v1
exit status 1

Configurations

header: # <1>
  license:
    spdx-id: Apache-2.0 # <2>
    copyright-owner: Apache Software Foundation # <3>
    copyright-year: '1993-2022' # <25>
    software-name: skywalking-eyes # <4>
    content: | # <5>
      Licensed to Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more contributor
      license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
      this work for additional information regarding copyright
      ownership. Apache Software Foundation (ASF) licenses this file to you under
      the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
      not use this file except in compliance with the License.
      You may obtain a copy of the License at

          http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

      Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
      software distributed under the License is distributed on an
      "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
      KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
      specific language governing permissions and limitations
      under the License.

    pattern: | # <6>
      Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation under one or more contributor
      license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
      this work for additional information regarding copyright
      ownership. The Apache Software Foundation licenses this file to you under
      the Apache License, Version 2.0 \(the "License"\); you may
      not use this file except in compliance with the License.
      You may obtain a copy of the License at

          http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

      Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
      software distributed under the License is distributed on an
      "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
      KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
      specific language governing permissions and limitations
      under the License.

  paths: # <7>
    - '**'

  paths-ignore: # <8>
    - 'dist'
    - 'licenses'
    - '**/*.md'
    - '**/testdata/**'
    - '**/go.mod'
    - '**/go.sum'
    - 'LICENSE'
    - 'NOTICE'
    - '**/assets/languages.yaml'
    - '**/assets/assets.gen.go'

  comment: on-failure # <9>

  license-location-threshold: 80 # <10>

  language: # <11>
    Go: # <12>
      extensions: #<13>
        - ".go"
      filenames: #<14>
        - "config.go"
        - "config_test.go"
      comment_style_id: DoubleSlash # <15>

dependency: # <16>
  files: # <17>
    - go.mod
  licenses: # <18>
    - name: dependency-name # <19>
      version: dependency-version # <20>
      license: Apache-2.0 # <21>
  threshold: 75 # <22>
  excludes: # <23>
    - name: dependency-name # the same format as <19>
      version: dependency-version # the same format as <20>
      recursive: true # whether to exclude all transitive dependencies brought by <dependency-name>, now only maven project supports this <24>
  1. The header section is configurations for source codes license header. If you have multiple modules or packages in your project that have differing licenses, this section may contain a list of licenses:
header:
  - path: "/path/to/module/a"
    license:
      spdx-id: Apache-2.0
  - path: "/path/to/module/b"
    license:
      spdx-id: MPL-2.0
  1. The SPDX ID of the license, it’s convenient when your license is standard SPDX license, so that you can simply specify this identifier without copying the whole license content or pattern. This will be used as the content when fix command needs to insert a license header.
  2. The copyright owner to replace the [owner] in the SPDX-ID license template.
  3. The copyright software name to replace the [software-name] in the SPDX-ID license template.
  4. If you are not using the standard license text, you can paste your license text here, this will be used as the content when fix command needs to insert a license header, if both license and SPDX-ID are specified, license wins.
  5. The pattern is an optional regexp. You don’t need this if all the file headers are the same as license or the license of SPDX-ID, otherwise you need to compose a pattern that matches your existing license texts so that license-eye won't complain about the existing license headers. If you want to replace your existing license headers, you can compose a pattern that matches your existing license headers, and modify the content to what you want to have, then license-eye header fix would rewrite all the existing license headers to the wanted content.
  6. The paths are the path list that will be checked (and fixed) by license-eye, default is ['**']. Formats like **/*.md and **/bin/** are supported.
  7. The paths-ignore are the path list that will be ignored by license-eye. By default, .git and the content in .gitignore will be inflated into the paths-ignore list.
  8. On what condition License-Eye will comment the check results on the pull request, on-failure, always or never. Options other than never require the environment variable GITHUB_TOKEN to be set.
  9. The license-location-threshold specifies the index threshold where the license header can be located.
  10. The language is an optional configuration. You can set the language license header comment style. If it doesn't exist, it will use the default configuration at the languages.yaml. An example is to use block comment style for Go codes.
  11. Specify the programming language identifier. You can set different configurations for multiple languages.
  12. The extensions are the files with these extensions which the configuration will take effect.
  13. The filenames are the specified files which the configuration will take effect.
  14. The comment_style_id set the license header comment style, it's the id at the styles.yaml.
  15. The dependency section is configurations for resolving dependencies' licenses.
  16. The files are the files that declare the dependencies of a project, typically, go.mod in Go project, pom.xml in maven project, and package.json in NodeJS project. If it's a relative path, it's relative to the .licenserc.yaml.
  17. Declare the licenses which cannot be identified by this tool.
  18. The name of the dependency, The name is different for different projects, PackagePath in Go project, GroupID:ArtifactID in maven project, PackageName in NodeJS project. You can use file pattern as described in the doc.
  19. The version of the dependency, comma seperated string (such as 1.0,2.0,3.0), if this is empty, it means all versions of the dependency.
  20. The SPDX ID of the dependency license.
  21. The minimum percentage of the file that must contain license text for identifying a license, default is 75.
  22. The dependencies that should be excluded when analyzing the licenses, this is useful when you declare the dependencies in pom.xml with compile scope but don't distribute them in package. (Note that non-compile scope dependencies are automatically excluded so you don't need to put them here).
  23. The transitive dependencies brought by <23> should be recursively excluded when analyzing the licenses, currently only maven project supports this.
  24. The copyright year of the work, if it's empty, it will be set to the current year. If you don't want to update the license year anually, you can set this to the year of the first publication of your work, such as 1994, or 1994-2023.

NOTE: When the SPDX-ID is Apache-2.0 and the owner is Apache Software foundation, the content would be a dedicated license specified by the ASF, otherwise, the license would be the standard one.

Supported File Types

The header check command theoretically supports all kinds of file types, while the supported file types of header fix command can be found in this YAML file. In the YAML file, if the language has a non-empty property comment_style_id, and the comment style id is declared in the comment styles file, then the language is supported by fix command.

  • assets/languages.yaml

    Java:
  type: programming
  tm_scope: source.java
  ace_mode: java
  codemirror_mode: clike
  codemirror_mime_type: text/x-java
  color: "#b07219"
  extensions:
    - ".java"
  language_id: 181
  comment_style_id: SlashAsterisk

  • assets/styles.yaml

    - id: SlashAsterisk     # (i)
  start: '/*'           # (ii)
  middle: ' *'          # (iii)
  end: ' */'            # (iv)
    1. The comment_style_id used in assets/languages.yaml.
    2. The leading characters of the starting of a block comment.
    3. The leading characters of the middle lines of a block comment.
    4. The leading characters of the ending line of a block comment.

Technical Documentation

  • There is an activity diagram explaining the implemented license header fixing mechanism in-depth. The diagram's source file can be found here.

Contribution

  • If you find any file type should be supported by the aforementioned configurations, but it's not listed there, feel free to open a pull request to add the configuration into the two files.
  • If you find the license template of an SPDX ID is not supported, feel free to open a pull request to add it into the template folder.

License

Apache License 2.0

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