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thanks, this is awesome. if i'd like the output to say GPL, GPL-2, GPL-3 instead of GPL GPL-2 GPL-3, how can I do that?

Is there any way to gather license information for this package, or if not, how can we continue listing package licenses past this point?

stderr output from dpkg-licenses:

WARNING: Unknown format of /usr/share/doc/csh/copyright: Format: http://www.debian.org/doc/copyright-format/1.0

If there is a github "release" in this repository, then CI/CD systems can be configured to pull a (largely immutable) tarball of these scripts directly from Github.

Currently the list of licenses is space-separated. The problem with this is that some licenses have spaces in their names.

It would be easier for further processing, if the separator was some character that does not occur in license names. Maybe it would be best, if the user could specify the chraracter as an optional command-line option. This would make the feature backwards compatible and also make it possible to change the character if there are clashes with some (future) license names.

The dependency to bash seems to be unnecessary. Also gnu grep (with its option -P) is not required, if the regex is slightly modified. Please see my wipu@890fe90 which I tested with several busybox-based images that only have a busybox sh and grep.

You may want to do the same to make the tool usable in a wider set of environments.