NAME¶

ninka - source file license identification tool

SYNOPSYS¶

ninka [options] filename

DESCRIPTION¶

Scans a source file and returns the found licenses.

OPTIONS¶

-i

create intermediary files (for debugging)

-v

verbose

EXAMPLES¶

ninka foo.c

Determine the licenses in file foo.c.

ninka -i foo.c

Determine the licenses in file foo.c and create intermediary files (for debugging).

find * | xargs -n1 -I@ ninka '@'

Determine the licenses of files in a directory.

AUTHOR¶

ninka was written by Daniel M. German <dmg@uvic.ca> and Yuki Manabe <y-manabe@ist.osaka-u.ac.jp>.

SEE ALSO¶

Daniel M. German, Yuki Manabe and Katsuro Inoue. A sentence-matching method for automatic license identification of source code files. In 25nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2010).

You can download it from http://turingmachine.org/~dmg/papers/dmg2010ninka.pdf.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE¶

Copyright (C) 2009-2014 Yuki Manabe and Daniel M. German, 2015 René Scheibe

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.