Tool to automatically detect FLOSS licenses.
license-finder needs a folder with license files (defaults to /usr/portage/licenses for easy use on Gentoo).
Usage
license-finder <directory>
Other options
usage: license-finder [-h] [--licenses-dir LICENSES_DIR]
[--min-ratio MIN_RATIO] [-n N]
files_or_dirs [files_or_dirs ...]
positional arguments:
files_or_dirs
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--licenses-dir LICENSES_DIR
Directory to look for licenses (default:
/usr/portage/licenses)
--min-ratio MIN_RATIO
Minimum ratio to consider the file as a match
(default: 0.8)
-n N Show at most x matching licenses
Example output:
/tmp/license-finder/LICENSE.txt:
----------------------------------------------
97.791 %: /usr/portage/licenses/GPL-2 (+0 -0 ~4)
96.934 %: /usr/portage/licenses/GPL-2-with-font-exception (+0 -1 ~4)
96.093 %: /usr/portage/licenses/GPL-2-with-linking-exception (+0 -1 ~4)
95.954 %: /usr/portage/licenses/GPL-2-with-exceptions (+0 -1 ~4)
86.207 %: /usr/portage/licenses/kvirc (+0 -1 ~3)