kryndex / license-checker

Check for a license stanza at the beginning of every file

license-checker

This is a simple utility that recursively checks all files in a directory to ensure they contain the Apache license header at the beginning.

By default, it checks the following prefixes:

• Dockerfile (e.g. Dockerfile-v2)
• Makefile

By default, it checks the following extensions:

• .go
• .c
• .cpp
• .py
• .sh
• .rb
• .yaml

By default, it skips the following directories:

• .git
• vendor
• generated

Building

You can just go get github.com/heptiolabs/license-checker to get the binary installed locally.

Running

Running is easy - just do license-checker to check the current directory. You can also pass -check with a comma-separated list of prefixes and extensions to check (e.g. -check Dockerfile,.go). You can also pass -skip with a comman-separated list of directory names to skip.