spdxl

spdxl (pronounced spud-exel) is a tool that checks source code looking for a SPDX version 2.0 "tag" and produces a text-based output on the command line. Designed to be used in conjunction with Debian's licensecheck it provides a way to ensure that all the files are correctly licensed and that you can created a complete SPDX document.

Install

To install spdxl follow this incantation;

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   sudo make install

The last command may require sudo to allow you to install software on your system. This has been tested on a Debian GNU/Linux system but should work on most UNIX systems or OSes that have perl.

Usage

The easiest way to use this is to call perl and spdxl.pl like this

perl spdxl.pl -d ./ -c

That uses the -d argument since spdxl needs a directory to read from (and the following "./" is the directory to read.) Then I've passed the -c flag to have colored output. The -c flag is optional. The -d flag is not. Call perldoc spdxl for more usage info.

Bugs

Please use 'issues' on GitHub for spdxl.

Contribute

Patches and pull requests are welcomed.

See also

ninka lint-bom reuse The reuse tool also has an action as well.

You can get tools that convert tags to spreadsheets here: https://github.com/goneall/SPDX-Tools

• The image embedded in this page is being used as a SPEC: https://spdx.org/tools
• SPDX license data as JSON is here: http://spdx.org/licenses/licenses.json Might be fun to parse this and create a prettier HTML dump via Angular or similar.

Copyright and License

Copyright (c) 2015 Jeremiah C. Foster

SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Jeremiah C. Foster https://jeremiahfoster.com

SPDX-License-Identifier: CC0-1.0

Source code licensed under the GPLv3