Hi Dominique, Quoting Dominique Dumont (2021-11-19 18:06:00) > On Thu, 12 Apr 2018 23:26:53 +0200 Jonas Smedegaard <d...@jones.dk> wrote: > > It is (slower but) more reliable to use "--lines 0". > > Indeed. I have a similar case with #1000179 where licensecheck does not get > copyright assignment from a LICENSE file: > > $ licensecheck --copyright LICENSE > LICENSE: *No copyright* Apache License 2.0 > > But it gets the copyright with --lines option: > > $ licensecheck --copyright LICENSE -l 0 > LICENSE: Apache License 2.0 > [Copyright: patent, trademark, and / license to reproduce, prepare > Derivative Works of, / License. Subject to the terms and conditions of / 2017 > Sourced Technologies S.L.] > > Would it be possible to use --lines 0 with files containing a lot of capital > letters (like LICENSE.* README*) and so on... These files tend to be > relatively > short compared to other source files.
Sounds like a bad idea to me to dynamically adapt scanning "depth" based on filename naming style. You write in bug#1000179 that --lines=0 > could really slow down copyright update I would appreciate some numbers about actual slowdown. On a related note, it is bad style to fork general public license files - I have reported this incident upstream: https://github.com/go-git/go-billy/issues/20 - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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