copyright-update - Update Copyright information in files
Update the copyright information in set of files, possibly recursively, matching content criteria. The updating affects copyright year, GPL address information etc.
The line must have word "Copyright", a three character "(C)" and the range of years. Varying amount of spaces and tabs are permitted, but there must be no spaces around the dash-character in YEAR-YEAR. Examples:
Copyright (C) YYYY-YYYY Copyright: (C) YYYY-YYYY
Change FSF (a)ddress paragraphs pointing only to URL. This format is the format used in the GPL v3 license text:
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>;.
Affects: paragraph with old address:
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
Affects: paragraph with new address:
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this package; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301USA
Turn on debug. Level can be in range 0-10.
Print text help
Print help in HTML format.
Print help in manual page man(1) format.
Ignore files mathing regexp. The match is done against whole path.
Change only lines which match REGEXP. The match is case-insensitive.
Recursively search all direcotries given at command line.
Change only files whose content matches REGEXP.
Run in test mode. Show what would happen. No files are changed.
Print informational messages. Increase numeric LEVEL for more verbosity.
Print contact and version information
Update files using YEAR. Year value must be four digits. The default is current calendar year.
Disable updating year.
The primary use is to update files to the current year:
copyright-update.pl --verbose 1 --test [--year YYYY] *
It is possible to restrict updating files recursively to only those files whose content match regexp, like author is "Mr. Foo". The lines affected are those that match --line regular expression.
copyright-update.pl \
--recursive \
--Regexp "Author:.*Mr. Foo" \
--line '\bFoo\b' \
--ignore '\.(bak|bup|[~#]])$' \
--verbose 1 \
--year 2002 \
--test \
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None.
None.
No environment variables are used.
None.
licensecheck(1) program in Debian.
Uses standard Perl modules.
Copyright (C) Jari Aalto
This program is free software; you can redistribute and/or modify program under the terms of GNU General Public license either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.