Messages in this thread | | | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Date | Tue, 28 Aug 2018 11:19:31 +0200 | Subject | Re: [patch V2 7/7] scripts: Add SPDX checker script |
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On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 4:38 PM Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 10:30 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote: > > The SPDX-License-Identifiers are growing in the kernel and so grow > > expression failures and license IDs are used which have no corresponding > > license text file in the LICENSES directory. > > > > Add a script which gathers information from the LICENSES directory, > > i.e. the various tags in the licenses and exception files and then scans > > either input from stdin, which it treats as a single file or if started > > without arguments it scans the full kernel tree. > > > > It checks whether the license expression syntax is correct and also > > validates whether the license identifiers used in the expressions are > > available in the LICENSES files. > > Looking good to me! And the use of ply is sleek.
For the record (currently Google doesn't find this issue yet):
ImportError: No module named ply
$ sudo apt-get install python-ply
ImportError: No module named git
$ sudo apt-get install python-git
Works!
Apparently I didn't have any of these two packages installed on any of my Ubuntu 18.04LTS and 16.04LTS machines...
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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