NAME
copyright-update - Update Copyright information in files
DESCRIPTION
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
OPTIONS
-a, --fsf-address
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
--debug LEVEL
Turn on debug. Level can be in range 0-10.
-h, --help
Print text help
--help-html
Print help in HTML format.
--help-man
Print help in manual page man(1) format.
-i, --ignore REGEXP
Ignore files mathing regexp. The match is done against whole path.
-l, --line REGEXP
Change only lines which match REGEXP. The match is case-
insensitive.
-r, --recursive
Recursively search all direcotries given at command line.
-R, --regexp REGEXP
Change only files whose content matches REGEXP.
-t, --test, --dry-run
Run in test mode. Show what would happen. No files are changed.
-v, --verbose LEVEL
Print informational messages. Increase numeric LEVEL for more
verbosity.
-V, --version
Print contact and version information
-y, --year YEAR
Update files using YEAR. Year value must be four digits. The
default is current calendar year.
-Y, --no-year
Disable updating year.
EXAMPLES
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 \
.
TROUBLESHOOTING
None.
EXAMPLES
None.
ENVIRONMENT
No environment variables are used.
FILES
None.
SEE ALSO
licensecheck(1) program in Debian.
COREQUISITES
Uses standard Perl modules.
AUTHOR
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.