Re: Differences between "module license" and "file license"

[Bruno Haible]

Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote:
> ./check-copyright shows in the main (master) directory:
> 
> Module License    File License   File name
> ================= ============== =====================================
> LGPLv2+           GPL            lib/alignalloc.h
> LGPLv2+           GPL            lib/alignalloc.c
> GPL               LGPLv2+        lib/glob.c
> GPL               LGPLv2+        lib/glob_internal.h
> GPL               LGPLv2+        lib/glob_pattern_p.c
> GPL               LGPLv2+        lib/globfree.c
> LGPLv2+           LGPLv3+ or GPLv2+ lib/uniwidth/width0.h
> LGPLv2+           LGPLv3+ or GPLv2+ lib/uniwidth/width2.h

This tabular output can be improved to look like this:

Module License    File License      File name
================= ================= =====================================
LGPLv2+           GPL               lib/alignalloc.h
LGPLv2+           GPL               lib/alignalloc.c
GPL               LGPLv2+           lib/glob.c
GPL               LGPLv2+           lib/glob_internal.h
GPL               LGPLv2+           lib/glob_pattern_p.c
GPL               LGPLv2+           lib/globfree.c
LGPLv2+           LGPLv3+ or GPLv2+ lib/uniwidth/width0.h
LGPLv2+           LGPLv3+ or GPLv2+ lib/uniwidth/width2.h


2023-02-07  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>

        check-copyright: Make output prettier.
        * check-copyright: Resize the second column from width 14 to width 17.

diff --git a/check-copyright b/check-copyright
index 727da142be..ee173c2595 100755
--- a/check-copyright
+++ b/check-copyright
@@ -171,10 +171,10 @@ for file in $candidates; do
   done
   if test "$file_license" != "$weakest_license"; then
     if test $error = 0; then
-      echo "Module License    File License   File name"
-      echo "================= ============== 
====================================="
+      echo "Module License    File License      File name"
+      echo "================= ================= 
====================================="
     fi
-    printf '%-17s %-14s %s\n' "$weakest_license" "$file_license" "$file"
+    printf '%-17s %-17s %s\n' "$weakest_license" "$file_license" "$file"
     error=1
   fi
 done