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Tools for detecting the type of a software license, e.g., permissive, copyleft

License: MIT License

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add Apache 2.0 support

add Artistic License support

support multiple licenses

Sometimes license files references multiple licenses, e.g.,

Dual licensed under the MIT or GPL Version 2 licenses.

add GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) support

Basic parsing doesn't work, shows help instead

Here's an example of running the project:

$ pip install https://github.com/tantalor/detect-license/archive/master.zip
...
Successfully installed detect-license-0.0.0
$ python --version
Python 2.7.12
$ detect_license.py --url https://raw.github.com/mojombo/jekyll/master/LICENSE
usage: detect_license.py [-h] [-f FILENAME] [-u URL]

Detect license

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -f FILENAME, --filename FILENAME
  -u URL, --url URL
$ detect_license.py -u https://raw.github.com/mojombo/jekyll/master/LICENSE
usage: detect_license.py [-h] [-f FILENAME] [-u URL]

Detect license

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -f FILENAME, --filename FILENAME
  -u URL, --url URL

What am I doing wrong?

add Mozilla Public License (MPL) support

add LGPL support

add Eclipse Public License (EPL) support

add BSD support

author runs on

Observed,

detect-license$ ./python/detect_license.py --url https://raw.github.com/josiahcarlson/yogatable/6bbd33eb4de8a9c0b0008536b38417f1b6d54284/license.txt
Author: Josiah Carlson and is released under
Year: 2010
Type: Unknown

Expected,

Author: Josiah Carlson

FSF author incorrect

Observed,

$ ./python/detect_license.py --url https://raw.github.com/jquery/jquery/master/GPL-LICENSE.txt
Author: Free Software Foundation

Expected,

Author: Free Software Foundation, Inc.

detect implied MIT license

see for example https://raw.github.com/arc90/git-sweep/master/LICENSE.txt