HawkEye: A Simple license header checker and formatter in Rust
(github.com)35 points by tison 2 days ago | 9 comments
35 points by tison 2 days ago | 9 comments
rendaw 21 hours ago | root | parent | next |
Their getting started guide tells you to manually add the header to the file. How do you get it to automatically add the header like hawkeye does?
giancarlostoro 2 days ago | root | parent | prev |
This isn't the only tooling out there though, typical SCA tooling in most enterprise companies will scan dependency licensing and vulnerabilities.
JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B 2 days ago | prev | next |
Is there a point to this if license headers are (supposedly) useless?
steveklabnik 2 days ago | root | parent | next |
I think for licenses like the MPL, which are scoped to a single file, including the header makes sense, and isn't particularly onerous: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/MPL/headers/
I don't put headers in projects that use other licenses.
codetrotter 2 days ago | root | parent |
I used to put the ISC license in the header of every file when I first started sharing code online under open source licenses. But eventually I realized that a single LICENSE file is best, instead of having the header in all of the files.
stonogo 2 days ago | root | parent | prev |
If Google wants to use your software, they will whine until you add them. I guess automating it would be nice in that case.
pianoben 2 days ago | prev | next |
Neat! I've always wanted a tool like this, but never wanted to build one.
The most "good enough" solution for validating license headers I've ever used is just to grep for the copyright line: https://github.com/microsoft/thrifty/blob/master/script/ensu...
This sounds much better.
steveklabnik 2 days ago | prev |
Oh neat! I use https://github.com/apache/skywalking-eyes extensively for this, but am not particularly in love with it.
ognarb 2 days ago | next |
Use the Reuse specification and tooling instead: https://reuse.software/
There is no need to reinvent a solved problem by rewritting it in rust with a different format, particularly considering that reuse was developed by the FSFE in collaboration with some lawyers.