[TYPO3-50-general] FLOW3CGL license header/annotation check

[Malte Jansen]

Hi Karsten,

Karsten Dambekalns schrieb:
> Hi Malte et al.
> 
> First things first: there is no need to have everything FLOW3 being 
> released as LGPL. Your packages can be GPL as well.
Ok, I was sure about it.
> 
> Thus, after looking at r1743 (Adjustment of Check for Copyright. 
> Checking for new copyright header) I think the checks need to allow for 
> more flexible checking.

Just write you comments to the FLOW3 header:
-----

This script belongs to the FLOW3 framework.                            *

It is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under    *
the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the *
Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your *
option) any later version.                                             *

This script is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but     *
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHAN-    *
TABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser       *
General Public License for more details.                               *

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public       *
License along with the script.                                         *
If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html                      *

The TYPO3 project - inspiring people to share!                         *
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Do we realy need this long license header? Isn't it just enough if you 
write something like:

----
This script belongs to the ###longpackagename###.                      *

It is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under    *
the terms of the license defined in @license-tag at the File-DocComment 
beneath this comment.                                             *

This script is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but     *
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHAN-    *
TABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See @license-tag for more 
details.                               *

The TYPO3 project - inspiring people to share!                         *
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> * The header comment only reads "This script belongs to the FLOW3 
> framework." for the FLOW3 package itself. Other packages differ in that 
> line.

"This script belongs to the ###LONGPACKAGENAME###."
Should be possible to read from the MyPackage/Meta/Package.xml.

Is there model/class of the package information, from which you can just 
get/import these informations?


> * The license may be GPL as well, probably even other (L)GPL compatible 
> licenses, or (for things being developed commercially) even something 
> completely different.

There should be some page were, the licenses are collected...

Just for completition:
http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/index_html


> * The @license annotation is a must, though, and should be consistent 
> within a package.
Ok

> Maybe the expected license and package key can be given to the tool, so 
> it can adjust the checks based on that.

Should be possible. See my question above.


Cheers,

Malte