Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] requirements of a new project in GNU Savannah

[Assaf Gordon]

Hello,

I decided to rewrite the script in Perl, as adding more features become 
cumbersome in a shell script.

It's an ugly mess, but it works nicely...
  http://files.housegordon.org/tmp1/gnu_savannah_eval.pl

Usage is:
  gnu_savannah_eval.pl --project "NAME" DIRECTORY | pandoc --from markdown --to 
html > 1.html

Some of the added features:
1. better copyright detection
2. detect "canonical" copyright ("Copyright (C) YEAR NAME") but also 
non-canonical forms.
gives a warning about non-canonical forms.
3. better license detection
4. tries to detect exact type and version (GPL/LGPL/AGPL 2/2.1/3 + or later) or 
BSD/MIT/zlib/perl/gnu-permissive/etc.
5. failing that, tries to detect some common phrases that hint about a 
non-standard license  wording.
6. detects linux vs gnu/linux, and open-source vs free-software
7. Generates a table of all files, their detected type, license and copyright.

Testing on GNU packages, there are still false-positives,
but also many valid warnings: there are many files (mostly tests) which aren't 
copyrighted.

http://files.housegordon.org/tmp1/coreutils_eval.html
http://files.housegordon.org/tmp1/gawk_eval.html
http://files.housegordon.org/tmp1/grep_eval.html
http://files.housegordon.org/tmp1/sed_eval.html
http://files.housegordon.org/tmp1/tar_eval.html

And these are evaluation of currently pending projects:

http://files.housegordon.org/tmp1/jnotebook_eval.html
http://files.housegordon.org/tmp1/rufascube_eval.html


To be continued,
 - Assaf.