Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] checklicenses.py

[João Valverde <joao.valverde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 08/05/2016 11:53 AM, João Valverde wrote:
> On 08/05/2016 11:50 AM, Guy Harris wrote:
> > On Aug 5, 2016, at 3:36 AM, João Valverde
> > <joao.valverde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > On 08/05/2016 11:21 AM, Guy Harris wrote:
> > >
> > > > Should we just grab some version that works and include it in the
> > > > tools directory, so that we don't get mysterious failures when
> > > > updating the version of Ubuntu on the buildbot and don't fail - or
> > > > require somebody to dig up or install via CPAN - on systems that
> > > > don't distribute it?
> > >
> > > No... too many CPAN dependencies.
> >
> > I.e., it's not a standalone script, and you'd have to get a ton of
> > other scripts from CPAN and distribute them as well?
>
> Yes (naturally this is the dependency problem CPAN itself tries to solve).

The Debian licensecheck.pl version prior to the Smedegaard take over was 
standalone. I think we should import that to tools.

The version corresponding to our buildbots (Ubuntu 16.04) is available here:

https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/devscripts.git/tree/scripts/licensecheck.pl?h=v2.16.2